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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Detroit on the Auction Block
05 Dec 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford With startling speed, a bankruptcy judge has moved Detroit to the auction block, with the banksters pre-positioned to pick the bones of the Black metropolis. Racism makes Wall Street’s mission infinitely easier. “Detroit is the golden opportunity to shape anti-…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
I Remember Fred Hampton
05 Dec 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Dr. Peniel Joseph: Peoples Historian or Establishment Courtier? Part Two of Two: Peniel Joseph vs Hubert Harrison on Democracy
07 Jul 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It's not that hard to tell an honest people's intellectual from a brand name huckster. One is engaged in making and propagating brands, terms with no fixed meaning of their own crafted to evoke unanalyzed, but useful feelings in an audience. The other is about…
Pascal Robert
Two Parties, One Game: Barack Obama's War on the Poor
11 Dec 2013
by Pascal Robert Enabled by the progressive chorus which barks furiously at evil racist obstructionist Republicans but ignores Democrats enforcing austerity on the poor, President Barack Obama has carried on the proud Democratic party tradition of campaigning to the left, but governing from the…
Sikivu Hutchinson
The Souls of Black Boys
11 Dec 2013
By Sikivu Hutchinson Black males are now down to about 1% of current UCLA freshmen. It's neoliberal California, where black boys are destined for marginal labor if they're lucky or pipelined to prison if they're not. Still, community activists in Los Angeles are fighting back, trying to nurture and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Talking About Mandela
11 Dec 2013
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Nelson Mandela belongs to history now. We should be able to look at his whole life, his whole record in perspective. That perspective ought to include who is praising Nelson Mandela nowadays and why.
Jemima Pierre
Reconciliation is Not Decolonization
11 Dec 2013
by BAR columnist Jemima Pierre Nelson Mandela certainly led an inspirational life, but the “liberation” of South Africa has been the continent’s most spectacular failure. Mandela and his party “reneged on their own Freedom Charter which promised that land, the national mineral wealth, the banking…
Gary Olson
The Need for an Ethical and Political De-Colonization of Human Rights: A Reflection on International Human Rights Day
11 Dec 2013
By Ajamu Baraka Can human rights rhetoric be deployed in the service of empire? You bet. In the current state of the planet, asserting human rights without fighting for local and global transformation is at best hollow, and at worst hypocritical, because the principal violators of these rights are…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
From the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black Panther Party
11 Dec 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Historians are supposed to help us make sense of the world, by illuminating the forces and trends that shape the lives and destinies of ordinary people. But historians in the service of power do something else. Whether carelessly or carefully, they omit and…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Eyewitness to America Betraying Mandela's South Africa: The Gore - Mbeki Commission
11 Dec 2013
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Nelson Mandela's ANC leadership negotiated the form of the new South Africa on two tracks, the political wrangling in one set of meetings, & the decisions on the nation's economic future separately at another location, headed by Thabo Mbeki. The results were…