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Rev. Reynard N. Blake Jr
Song Parody: Teaching White People What Racism Means
05 Nov 2014
by Reverend Reynard N. Blake, Jr. See harmful loan schemes and tricks black folks go through Criminal justice makes prison work fruitful Sentence black guys with the long stints they’ll bring Greenbacks accrue from high speculating
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Black Is Back On Track
05 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Taking up some slack Resisting an attack Off the mule’s back Out the cul-de-sac Trane back on track— BLACK IS BACK!
The Real News Network
The Real News Network: Feds Impose No-Fly Zone Over Ferguson's No-Justice Zone
05 Nov 2014
By the Real News Network
Roberto Lovato
Zombie Politics Takes Center Stage After Midterms Debacle
05 Nov 2014
By Roberto Lovato The first black president never explicitly promised blacks ANYTHING, the logic of some apologists goes, so we're foolish to expect anything. But what of the Latino community, to whom he promised a road to citizenship and delivered instead a vicious policy of 2 million…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
#DC Ferguson and Kenny Nero, Jr: On the Front Lines of Fighting Police Terror in Washington, DC
05 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Activist Kenny Nero, Jr., of the DC Ferguson Movement, wants to “stand in solidarity with the victims of violence in Ferguson while standing in solidarity with victims of police brutality, harassment, terror or other misconducts.” That means…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Midterm Madness! Zombie Dems VS Zombie Repubs, Zombie Consensus Wins Again!
06 Nov 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats lost almost everywhere this midterm, and where they won it wasn't good news for the 99%. Pension-cutting, privatizing, mass incarcerating tax-the-poor and coddle-the-rich Democrats like the incumbent governors of California and New York are pretty…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Working Families Party Must Go
05 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo loves to show his disdain for the left, including the fake left represented by the Working Families Party (WFP). Cuomo “expanded the number of charter schools and bragged about giving tax relief to…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Rev. Edward Pinkney Convicted of Five Counts of Felony Forgery by Berrien County Jury
13 Nov 2014
by Abayomi Azikiwe An all white jury in Whirlpool's company town, Benton Harbor MI overcame an astounding lack of evidence to convict Rev. Edward Pinkney of forgery on petitions to recall the city's mayor. It's the latest in a long series of willful political prosecutions of Rev. Pinkney. It must…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Midterm…Mo’ Power to the People!
13 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner “Universal suffrage is thus the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the modern state; but that is enough." —Marx or Engels? Corporate media doesn't tell you these things, lots more happened last week…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama's Feet To The Fire? Not Likely. Not Ever.
13 Nov 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Talk about holding President Obama's feet to the fire was always empty noise, as many making it surely knew. In fact the US political system provides few or no ways for anyone except the wealthy to influence what legislators, judges, governors…