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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Phony Nuclear Disarmament
08 Apr 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama sent a near-declaration of war to Iran, all wrapped up in greetings for the Iranian New Year. The message may have looked like “a smiley faced video” in which the “president appeared to be very amiable and wished peace, love…
Bill Quigley
Structural Racism Not on ABC's Agenda
08 Apr 2009
by Julie Hollar U.S. corporate media pretend to explore issues of race in America, but seldom go beyond matters of general perception, anecdotes, images, and questions about the availability of cab rides. ABC television prefers to package their racial reports as “encouraging stories,” writes…
Bill Quigley
Fidel Castro on Black Caucus Trip to Cuba
08 Apr 2009
from Prensa Latina The former leader of Cuba, in his new capacity as journalist, reports on this week’s and previous visits from members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Castro describes the CBC as, “in practice…the most progressive wing within the Democrat Party.” The delegation, which…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Meltdown Stalls Whitening of Harlem: Gentrifiers Go Bust
08 Apr 2009
Market Meltdown Stalls Whitening of Harlem: Gentrifiers Go Bust A Black Agenda Radio interview with Nellie Hester-Bailey, executive director, Harlem Tenants Council by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Click the flash player to hear or the mic below to download a broadcast quality MP3 of this BA…
Bill Quigley
Public Broadband Maps Must Expose Digital Redlining To End the Digital Divide
08 Apr 2009
A BA Radio Commentary by Bruce Dixon Click the flash player to hear or the mic below to download a broadcast quality MP3 of this BA Radio commentary . President Obama pledged the extension of low-cost broadband would be a…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
First Black President Defeats U.S. Antiwar Movement
15 Apr 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player above to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary The arrival of the Obama administration has crippled the U.S. anti-war…
Bill Quigley
Eshu's Blues: First Black President of the American Empire
15 Apr 2009
by michael hureaux perez The name on the door, and the family in the White House has changed. We have a president who speaks in complete, grammatically correct sentences. But with more than 800 US military bases around the planet, and spending more on things military than the other 95% of the…
Bill Quigley
Politics and the Eighth Book of Moses
15 Apr 2009
by John Maxwell The movement to subjugate women, in the name of religion and the family, is on the march everyplace, including the Caribbean, Jamaica's eminent John Maxwell informs us. Jamaican lawmakers have enacted measures similar to those of their brothers in Afghanistan making husbands in…
Bill Quigley
Congress Nibbles on Edges of Wealth Gap
15 Apr 2009
The normal workings of America's version of the “free market “ have held black family wealth to one eleventh that of white families, on the average, and black family wealth has been much harder hit than that of white families by the collapse of the housing bubble. The economy is anything but race…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Brand Soars, GOP Plummets on American Illusory Exchange: AmIllEx
08 Apr 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama massacred George Bush at the polls this week - the New York Times/CBS poll, that is. The high marks for the president are being interpreted as signs of an upbeat feeling about the economy - although Obama's popularity and the economy's performance…