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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
…Come out the shadows and get Reich with some brew…
03 Dec 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Reject cries for organization Dial down militant agitation Re-calibrate comments and remarks Empire’s prairie, your words are sparks…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ferguson’s Reckoning for Obama
03 Dec 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black folks should have only one thing to say to President Obama: “’Prosecute!’ Every time Eric Holder or Barack Obama or a high profile misleader turns up in public they must be met with this very simple demand.” The only thing standing in the…
The Editors
Ajamu Baraka: “Peoples in Resistance from Ferguson to Palestine: A Report Back” Dec 10-11
03 Dec 2014
by The Editors In an era when corporate news don't cover the existence of Palestinians as human beings, or the simple fat that Israel's apartheid regime continues to wage a genocidal war against them, nothing is more valuable than first hand reporting. Black Agenda Report's Ajamu Baraka is…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The New Movement: Are We There Yet?
04 Dec 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford A new movement is being born, but yet to be named. Unlike its historical predecessors, this struggle is primarily directed against the police, the armed, coercive organs of the state. Some degree of violence is inevitable. “In the final analysis, cities will almost…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Did Young Activists Gain From White House Meeting? What Did the President Get?
04 Dec 2014
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon After sending an extra hundred FBI agents to Ferguson in the days just before the grand jury decision, the White House invited young activists opposing police murder and impunity to a Monday meeting with the president. Black Agenda Report spoke briefly with Mr…
Ezili Danto
Free Haiti: Impeach Martelly
10 Dec 2014
by Ezili Danto The clock is ticking for Haiti to cast off the U.S.-backed regime of Michel Martelly, who will soon rule by raw decree if he is not quickly impeached. Haiti’s senate has the “authority to indict, impeach and remove Martelly immediately to protect the population, avoid a bloodbath,…
Wilmer J. Leon III
We Must Look Back in Order to Move Forward
10 Dec 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III Racial murders often begin in the mind. “Too many police forces and officers view the African American citizens that they have sworn to ‘Protect and Serve’ as enemy combatants to be ‘Feared and Eliminated.’” The mindset of U.S. cops is conditioned by a national history of…
Michelle Renee Matisons
Class, Race, Gender and U.S. Policing
10 Dec 2014
by Michelle Renee Matisons The policing ethos in America is caught in an “omni-crisis” – an intersection of oppressions. “In a seemingly psychotic paradox, this system has all its (military) equipment, but it persists in evoking its imagined white vulnerability in the face of darker people's also…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
From Iguala to Ferguson, Resistance requires a Global Movement against US Imperialism
10 Dec 2014
by Danny Haiphong The kidnapping and mass murder of students in Mexico is also a crime of U.S. imperial policy toward its southern neighbors. “It is the task of a the revolutionary movement in the US and around the globe to connect the graveyard conditions imposed on Black America to…
Mark P. Fancher
Justice for Eric Garner? From the Justice Department? Don’t Hold Your Breath
10 Dec 2014
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. Justice Department’s routine refusal to prosecute killer cops is based on an erroneous interpretation of the law. The feds claim that wrongful police homicides cannot be prosecuted unless the cops intended to violate the victim’s constitutional rights. But the federal…