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Sikivu Hutchinson
In Cold Blood: The Murder of Renisha McBride
12 Nov 2013
by Sikivu Hutchinson The 19-year-old Black woman had just gotten a job at the Ford Motor Company when she was shot in the face with a shotgun by a white homeowner after seeking help after a car crash. Her killing “is part of a long legacy of black female murder victims who have been devalued in a…
Iyanna Jones
No Fear: The Marsha Coleman Adebayo Story Green Lit for Pre-Production
12 Nov 2013
by Iyanna Jones The gripping personal saga of the struggle that led to passage of the No FEAR Act will soon begin film production. No Fear: The Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Story, reveals the venality, racism and corporate greed that infests the Environmental Protection Agency, endangering the lives of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Axis of Evil: France, Israel, Saudi Arabia
20 Nov 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley There seems always to be some combination of imperialists and Zionists available to sabotage any normalization of relations with Iran. This time, it’s the French, Israelis and Saudis, allowing the U.S. to play the role of frustrated peace-seeker…
Michael Davar Long
Prized Livestock
19 Nov 2013
by Michael Davar Long Only a cold-blooded savage animal could so easily spill life from flesh & beat trees into the backs of souls
Bill Quigley
Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
19 Nov 2013
by Bill Quigley The immigrant workers that helped rebuild New Orleans after Katrina have been targeted for removal from the city. “If they go to the laundromat or the barber shop or the grocery store, they will be targeted for nothing more than looking Latino.”
Tolu Olorunda
Democracy and the Detroit Election: An Interview with Charles Simmons
19 Nov 2013
by Tolu Olorunda The Black metropolis of Detroit has been brought low, its population dis-employed and disenfranchised, after 40 years of nominal Black rule. “Most of the population are already disappointed with the Black political class, and this is a view held even among the Black bourgeoisie.”
Jane Biral
HBCUs and the United Negro College Fund: Another Grand Betrayal
20 Nov 2013
Misleadership and the Mission
charly47
The Devil & Dan Jones
19 Nov 2013
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner Dan quizzed, “Don’t you have Dyson?” Satan quipped, “Damn right, my son,” “And Reverend Al and Harris-Perry— What the hell—the more the merry!”
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama and Holder Let Gangsters Pay Fine, Continue Business As Usual
20 Nov 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Going on five years into the Obama regime, it is clear that Wall Street is immune from prosecution, no matter the savagery of the economic crime. Attorney General Eric Holder “has ruthlessly maneuvered every case against the oligarchs into his own…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
A Tale of Two Women: Bessie Chapman 1909 – 2013 and Renisha McBride 1994 – 2013: "The More things Change..."
20 Nov 2013
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Betsy Chapman, age 104, and Renisha McBride, age 19, died within a week of one another in Detroit. Ms. Chapman fled Georgia at a young age, seeking a degree of safety in the North. Ms. McBride met a ghastly end, a victim of the same racist…