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Solomon Comissiong
The White Supremacist Infiltration of Rap Music
13 Aug 2013
by Solomon Comissiong Hip Hop music has been hijacked by corporate Klansmen who suppress the righteous lyrics of artists “like Dead Prez, Capital X, Immortal Technique, Rebel Diaz, Jasiri X, and Bahamadia.” Rap artists that have enslaved themselves to the production of stereotypes and gratuitous…
Chris Hedges
America’s Disappeared
14 Aug 2013
by Chris Hedges When three guys go missing in the ghetto, it’s an ordinary event. The criminal justice system is a body-snatcher. “In America, when you are poor, you can instantly disappear into the subterranean rabbit holes of our vast jail and prison complex.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Fukushima
14 Aug 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The doomed nuclear reactor at Fukushima, Japan is leaking 300 tons of water into the ground and ocean every day. “Collusion among the Japanese government, big business and the corporate media worked to prevent the world from knowing about a…
Randy Shields
A Plague of Desolationists on the “Left”
24 Apr 2013
by Randy Shields “Desolationists believe that America’s non-stop bombing of other nations is either no issue at all or not nearly as important as being pro-choice or supporting gun control or marriage equality.” They are worse than useless. Plus, “with blacks standing down indefinitely, the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Expect “Massive Resistance” to Stop-and-Frisk Ruling
15 Aug 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A federal court ruling against New York City’s stop-and-frisk practices says, essentially: “There are to be no ‘Constitution-free zones’” where Blacks can be treated as lesser citizens. However, the entire American political establishment is committed to racial…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama Administration Seeks to Keep Tens of Thousands Imprisoned Under Unfair Crack VS Powder Cocaine Penalties
01 Aug 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Our black political class wants to feed us outrage over the case of Trayvon Martin. But for 3 years the black press, advocacy organizations and the black political class have ignored the Obama administration's attempt to keep as many unjustly sentenced crack…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Holder & Obama Are Playing Us On Mandatory Minimums, the Drug War and Mass Incarceration
15 Aug 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Once or twice a year Eric Holder and/or the president discover police brutality, racial profiling, or the injustice of the drug war, or mass incarceration. Black America gets some sound bytes of “drive-by” concern, some noises about a study or a “policy …
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Massacre in Egypt Hastens Demise of U.S.-Jihadist Alliance
20 Aug 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The secularists and leftists that backed the military’s coup in Egypt “cannot escape culpability for Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi’s current and future crimes.” But the clock is also ticking on the decades-long U.S. strategy to deploy Muslim jihadists as foot soldiers…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
We Condemn Massacre of Egyptian Civilians and U.S. Military Ties
20 Aug 2013
by Ajamu Baraka The author, a member of the Green Shadow cabinet, says the “U.S. government is deeply implicated in the murder, injury and arrest of thousands of Egyptians, perpetrated by the military regime using U.S.-supplied military equipment and U.S. trained military personnel.” President…
Tom Stephens
ABC’s of Detroit Bankruptcy
20 Aug 2013
by Thomas Stephens How do you spell the political and economic murder of a Black metropolis? The catastrophe in Detroit, from A to Z.