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Wilmer J. Leon III
Chief Justice Roberts, The Jury is Still Out
04 Jul 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Much of the Right is furious with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for saving President Obama’s healthcare legislation from constitutional defeat. But Roberts may have had a larger conservative agenda. “Could it be that by rejecting the Obama administration’s…
Wilmer J. Leon III
What About Trayvon's Right to Self-Defense?
28 Mar 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Whose right to self-defense trumps in the Trayvon Martin case – the unarmed Black teenager or his killer? The killer who stalked Martin claims he got the worst of a fight, and then fired his weapon. But, “to accept Zimmerman’s version of events and relieve him of any…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Voter Suppression in 2012, Past is Prologue
21 Mar 2012
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III Republican voter suppression could negate the votes of five million Americans, and potentially sway the 2012 election. “The very people who claim they want to ‘take their country back’; want to ‘restore America to its original ideals’; and ‘protect liberty for all…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Attorney General Eric Holder: Wrong on the Law, the Politics, and on the Wrong Side of History
14 Mar 2012
by Wilmer J. Leon III, Ph.D. The first Black president and first Black attorney general have so twisted the Constitutional guarantees of due process of law, that “not only can American citizens be indefinitely detained, they can also be assassinated by their own government at the will and whim of…
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, 1934-2014: Somebody Blew Up America
13 Jan 2014
Somebody Blew Up America by Amiri Baraka
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
"Terror War" Terrorizes Spineless Democrats
08 Aug 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon When Democrats compete to adopt the phony "global war on terror" as their own, and promise they can do it "better" or "smarter" than Republicans, they erase what little difference remains between the parties. "Terror Democrats" have abandoned the politics of…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Man’s Love
22 Aug 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Mark P. Fancher
Somebody Needs to do Some Time for Katrina Crimes
22 Aug 2007
The United States rejects the rule of international law, refusing to subject itself to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, while claiming moral authority to pronounce unilateral judgment on the behavior of other nations and world leaders. According to the National Conference of…
Angola 3 News
A Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement – An interview with Rev. Dr. Patricia Teel Bates
15 Jan 2014
by Angola 3 News One more to go. “Albert Woodfox remains the sole Angola 3 member still in prison.” His comrade, Herman Wallace, was released in October, just a few days before dying of liver cancer. Amnesty International declared, "Herman died a free man. Let's help Albert live as one."
Benjamin Woods
Who and What is “The Left”?
15 Jan 2014
by Benjamin Woods The “Left” resurgence in the U.S. is less than it’s cracked up to be. Not so long ago, luminaries like Bill de Blasio and Elizabeth Warren would have been, at best, referred to as liberals.” If you’re not pushing for redistribution of land and wealth and nationalization of the “…