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Pascal Robert
Black Like Me: Black Immigration Conference in Miami
27 May 2014
by Pascal Robert Photos by Kevin Banatte[Dream Defenders Communications Relentless forces, internal and external, seek to pit Black Americans and immigrants against one another. However, many immigrants are Black and subject to the same mass incarceration policies as African Americans. “…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Boko Haram a Blessing for Imperialism in Africa: U.S. Training Death Squads
28 May 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Americans now admit they are training battalions of African Rangers and counterinsurgency troops. The next step is the proliferation of death squads in West Africa, as the U.S. did in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Nigeria’s schoolgirls may or may not be…
Norman Richmond
Celebrating 35 years of Black Music Month
03 Jun 2014
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali The Black Music Association was formed in 1979, but not all chapters supported the boycott of racist South Africa in the Seventies and Eighties. The Toronto and New York chapters shunned the racist regime.
Ama Biney
The Africa I want to see…
03 Jun 2014
by Ama Biney The author has a continental and global vision that demands fulfilling, an Africa that requires “a new mind-set for revolution.”
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Stephen A Smith: Lapdog for White Supremacy on the American Corporate Plantation
03 Jun 2014
by Danny Haiphong The white power structure in the U.S. controls the guns, money, communication media and levers of government. In a pinch, it can also call on the Black Misleadership Class, “America's neo-colonial elite that occupies a few privileged seats in Washington and corporate offices…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Elections in Syria: The People Say No to Foreign Intervention
04 Jun 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka After three years of a war financed, armed and manned by the U.S. and its allies, the Syrian people cast ballots wherever it was possible. The U.S. position is that Syria’s vote is illegitimate because of the conflict, but Ukraine’s elections are legitimate…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Molefi Asante’s Insane War on BAR and the Black Radical Tradition
04 Jun 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Molefi Asante, promoter of Systematic Nationalism, poses as the consummate Race Man but is in practice an agent of white corporate power. In fear of exposure for his backstabbing at Temple University, Asante has lashed out at the Black Radical Tradition and all its…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Black Lobbyists, Black Legislators Leverage Their “Brands” For Banksters, Military Contractors, Corporate Interests
04 Jun 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When black politics emanated from the streets, not the suites, it was a force against imperial war, for full employment, better housing and public education. But now, black politics is a hollowed out brand, an empty signifier deployed by black lobbyists and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Miners Shot Down
04 Jun 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A new film, Miners Shot Down, shows in graphic detail the massacre of dozens of miners at Marikana, South Africa, in 2012. “Footage from the South African police shows the miners being penned in by barbwire, mowed down by a fusillade and the…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Prospects and Problems of 21st Century Socialism in the US
10 Jun 2014
by Danny Haiphong Socialism is by no means dead, except in the minds of much of what passes for the Left in the West. Socialists are struggling to overcome capitalist relations of power in various places around the world. “Radicals would benefit much from studying the cooperative economic and…