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The Real News Network: Glen Ford on Police Militarization
04 Sep 2014
Harold Green
NATO, AFRICOM and the New White Man's Burden
09 Nov 2011
by Harold Green With the era of formal colonialism only recently ended, and only 125 years after the Europeans and the United States formally divided Africa among themselves, NATO has begun the military reimposition of Euro-American rule of the Continent. The conquest of sovereign Libya has…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Barack Obama, the State of the Union and the Prison State
29 Jan 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For a generation now, predatory policing, the war on drugs and the prison state have been government's most frequent intersection with young black Americans. The gossip before this year's State of the Union was that the president would now do by executive order…
Norman Richmond
Venus and Serena’s Father’s Tale of Southern Injustice: Black and White - The Way I See It
27 Aug 2014
a review by Norman (Otis) Richmond The father who raised two of the greatest tennis players in history was himself the product of southern fried violence and hyper-racism. Richard Williams’ “episode with the Klan alone is worth the price of his autobiography.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Hail the Heroic Mid-west Bank: Ferguson
27 Aug 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Working people of Ferguson are still standing tall against Judas Quisling Steppin’ Fetchit house Negroz telling them to “Get off the streets,” “Go home, “ “Go back to sleep, watching Oprah, Ellen, reruns of ‘Roots’”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Justice Is Served
04 Sep 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Justice is served A la Carte, chokehold-style, or Fifty bullets, forty-one, or one Or two well placed headshots From killing-machine chefs
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Ferguson
10 Sep 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Ahm prowd ob Fightin’ Furgasun’s po, wurkin peeples, heroic youf Dey de wonz we can count on wen we’s fightin fo’ Justus, an’ Troof—
Carlos Martinez
Assata: A Biography – A Review and Quotes
10 Sep 2014
by Carlos Martinez Good news: Assata Shakur’s autobiography has been republished. The former Black Panther and escaped political prisoner with a $2 million bounty on her head speaks to us from exile in Cuba. “The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of…
Angola 3 News
Terrorism, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party – An interview with law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell
10 Sep 2014
by Angola 3 News A noted law professor argues that the U.S. government engaged in terror in its suppression of the Black Panther Party. The Panthers, on the other hand, sought to safeguard the public from the police. “Years removed, we still find ourselves in need of such intermediaries. If their…
Mel Reeves
Who Killed Mike Brown? What to Do?
10 Sep 2014
by Mel Reeves Why did Ferguson, Missouri, rebel? For the same reason that Watts rebelled, 50 years earlier. An “old soldier” knows the answer: “Too many Black folks were being sent to prison for too long, too much policing in its neighborhood, too much racism, substandard housing, poor healthcare…