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by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Ukraine and the Pathology of the Liberal Worldview: An African American Perspective
11 Mar 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The U.S. supported far-right forces in Ukraine against what they called the “dictatorship” of the elected president. But, “there was no outcry against the governor of Michigan when he engineered the passage of anti-democratic legislation that allowed him to…
Paul Street
Obama Ticket Prices and the Invisible Ruling Class
12 Mar 2014
by Paul Street Frederick Harris’ very useful book on the “high price” – to Black folks – of the nation’s First Black President has been reissued in paperback. However, Harris gives Obama too much credit as a president of all the people. “Like the great majority of U.S. presidents,” writes Paul…
Josmar Trujillo
The Case Against Bill Bratton
11 Mar 2014
by Josmar Trujillo If Bill de Blasio is really a progressive, why did he bring back the architect of Stop-and-Frisk as his police commissioner? When it comes to aggressive policing gospel Bratton is the “pastor of the flock.” Bratton seems the least qualified to make the changes that are “…
Ron Lester Whyte
Reparations: A Long Overdue Moral Obligation
11 Mar 2014
by Ron Lester Whyte The need for reparations won’t go away, even if debate on righting the wrongs done to Black people is currently at low ebb. The harms inflicted were “systematic and deliberate” – and so must be the redress. “The federal government must be held to account for its role in the…
Derek Ide
From Radical Resistance to Propagating Imperialism: Latino/a Student Organizations and Venezuela
10 Mar 2014
by Derek Ide The children of the rich who fled socialist change in Venezuela now dominate Latino organizations at U.S. universities, “parroting the propaganda of corporate media outlets, slandering a radical government which has defied U.S. imperialism in the region.” The despise the fact that the…
Noelle Hanrahan and Stephen Vittoria
Behind the Flash Mob Attack on Obama’s DOJ Attorney General Nominee Debo Adegbile
11 Mar 2014
by Noelle Hanrahan and Stephen Vittoria The U.S. Senate used hatred of Mumia Abu Jamal to defeat Debo Adegbile’s nomination as chief of civil rights at the U.S. Justice Department. “U.S. Senators and political pundits regurgitate blatant lies that seek to demonize Abu-Jamal because they face zero…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
…In his head
10 Mar 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Dr. King’s Dream come true, In his head! Black folks way better Off, in his head, Rev. Wright was Wrong, in his head!
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Reinistate Dr. Anthony Monteiro, and Reinvent U.S. Higher Education
12 Mar 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It’s not so easy to fire an associate professor of African American Studies who has forged strong ties with the surround Black community. Philadelphia’s Temple University is finding that out, in the case of Dr. Tony Monteiro. Protesters converged on campus, this…
The Real News Network
After Chokwe Lumumba: TRNN's Jaisal Noor & Glen Ford Interview Kali Akuno on the Legacy of Jackson Mississippi's Mayor
16 Mar 2014
After Chokwe Lumumba, TRNN's Jaisal Noor and BAR's Glen Ford interview Kali Akuno on the ongoing legacy of Chokwe Lumumba Part 1 of 2.
Thandisizwe Chimurenga
No Doubt: The Murders of Oscar Grant
16 Mar 2014
Oscar Grant was first murdered by a transit cop on a Bay Area subway platform, and several times more in the media & courts to justify the first murder. Trailer for "No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant" from Ida B. Wells Institute on Vimeo. by Thandisizwe Chimurenga Oscar Grant was…