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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Detroit: The Dispersal of Urban Black America Begins
23 Oct 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit’s bankruptcy drama is a cover for ethnic and class cleansing. The city’s accelerated Black-removal plan came under scrutiny of United Nations rapporteurs, who found evidence of racial discrimination and human rights abuses. “The water disconnections and…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Note on the Importance of Black Agenda Report and Why It Deserves Your Support
23 Oct 2014
by Danny Haiphong A strong, independent movement for genuine social transformation, needs its own, battling media. “It was Black Agenda Report that condemned Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and the entire Black Misleadership class for supporting Israel, expanding the American empire's domestic and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
University of Revolution
22 Oct 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Mass rallies, strikes, pickets, voter registration, armed Self-defense; from flash-mobbing miserly Wal-Marts, To slipping “Which Side Are You On?” in on the St Louis Symphony, to unfurling anti-racist banners on Monday Night Football, National TV,…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Code Black Alert: Slave Patrols Alive and Well Across America, Killing of Vonderrit Myers – Part II
23 Oct 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends “Policing” in America is an outgrowth of the slave patrols of yesteryear, terror-squads that protected and served the slave master and his profits. The U.S. Criminal Injustice System’s hostility to Black people’s claims to…
Ajamu Nangwaya
Transform your Global Justice Sentiments into Action to End the Military Occupation of Haiti
29 Oct 2014
by Ajamu Nangwaya On October 14, the UN Security Council extended the armed occupation of Haiti. The world body has been allowed to trample Haiti’s sovereignty and dignity “without significant mobilization and opposition from peace, global justice and international solidarity activists and…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Happy Halloween from the Most Violent Ruling Class in Human History
29 Oct 2014
by Danny Haiphong U.S. imperialism is a House of Horrors, churning out monsters of its own making, the clank of its decaying bones sounding an epochal death knell. “The horror stories emanating from the corporate media will not stop until there is a mass understanding of the source…
Mark P. Fancher
Freedom Rider: The World Must Judge America’s Human Rights Abuses
29 Oct 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley For Black people in America, getting justice has little or nothing to do with facts or evidence or common sense. White supremacy trumps all, even if the president and the top federal lawman are Black. “Obama and attorney general Eric Holder have…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
For Moment, the World Embraces the Cuba Model – and Slaps the Empire
29 Oct 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The United Nations’ yearly vote against the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba has evolved into a “singular opportunity for all the world body’s members to chastise the superpower that seeks full spectrum domination of the planet.” The Cuban model of behavior in the world…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Code Black Alert: Vonderrit Myers “Shot in Back” – Slave Patrol Officials Continue Disinformation Campaign
29 Oct 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo “The St. Louis police department is engaged in a massive cover-up, falsifying documents, perhaps tampering with materials and iniquitous lying” in the death of 18-year-old Vonderrit Myers. Nevertheless, the police version of events is rapidly…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Estranged Careerists of the Corporate Black Cash-hounds (CBC)
29 Oct 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Once upon a time the CBC called itself the "conscience of the congress". That, observers our poet in residence, was a long time ago indeed. CBC stands for something quite different these days.