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Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Charlie Hebdo and the “Wild West”
28 Jan 2015
by Dr. T P Wilkinson Charlie Hebdo propagandists are sending a cowboys-and-Indians media message. “The image of the fanatical Muslim ‘Indians’ – on the warpath – attacking a tiny, helpless intellectual family in the Parisian prairie is pure fantasy cultivated by the mass media presentation of…
Antonio Moore
The Decadent Veil: Black America's Wealth Illusion
28 Jan 2015
by Antonio Moore The constant flashing of Black celebrity wealth – much of it earned in sports, entertainment and media – “has allowed for a broad swath of America to become not just desensitized to black poverty, but also hypnotized by black celebrity.” But, the real Black economic condition…
The Real News Network
Expanding on Selma and the Politics of Martin Luther King Jr.
28 Jan 2015
by Danny Haiphong “It should come as no surprise that Selma concluded by promoting King as a peaceful pacifist who led a movement that gave individual leaders like John Lewis a seat at the table of US imperialism.” At core, the screenplay must be viewed as Hollywood-scale historical revisionism. “…
Paul Street
Mass Killings of Blacks by Cops: An Absence of Outrage
28 Jan 2015
by Paul Street After two generations of mass Black incarceration, hyper-surveillance and police militarization as national policy, a nascent movement has finally arisen to demand that Black Lives Matter. But most whites feel no compassion for the victims of state carnage in the ghetto. “Where is…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
I am Charlie…
28 Jan 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Slaughtering Vietnamese, Torturing Tunisians, murdering Moroccans and Algerians? Yeah, We know where West African bodies Are buried
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Holder’s Final Betraying Kiss to the People of Ferguson: The Wholesale Abandonment of Decency
28 Jan 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, and Kevin Berends Eric Holder’s Justice Department has definitively leaked that it will not indict the former Ferguson cop who killed Michael Brown. That also means “the families of John Crawford III, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and all the other…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Chris Kyle and Media Propaganda
28 Jan 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley America, the historical mass murder machine, remains unrepentant, as verified by the phenomenal box office success of American Sniper. The real life Iraq War psychopath, who died by another veteran’s bullet in 2013, was accorded hero status by…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Our Girls are Still Not Home: Boko Haram and the Politics of Death
28 Jan 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Nigeria’s neighbors have pledged military help in the fight against Boko Haram, which continues its offensive in the northeastern corner of the country. The civil war threatens to destabilize Africa’s most populous nation. Boko Haram certainly does engage in…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Changing the Guard in Black America
29 Jan 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It’s been so long since Black America has experienced a grassroots movement, most folks don’t have a clue how to measure its success. The Black Lives Matter campaign has already accomplished a fundamental task, despite the lack of indictment against Michael Brown’s…
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 1/12/15
14 Jan 2015
Cop Body Cameras Threaten Civil Liberties President Obama wants to spend $75 million to equip cops with body cameras. However, Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee warned that “body cameras will ultimately be used to create a mountain of new evidence” against…