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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Taking the Initiative Back For the Movement After the Brinsley Killings
25 Dec 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The killing of 2 NYPD officers by Ismaaiyl Brinsley were the occasion for fascist cops, mostly Republicans and authoritarian liberal politicians, mostly Democrats along with their black civil rights and media spokespeople, to seize the initiative from the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How "Progressive Black Democrats" in Your Town and Moral Monday in GA Fight For Us. Not.
06 Feb 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In Atlanta, black and progressive Democrats are congratulating each other for introducing what they call a criminal justice reform package, hailed by Moral Monday. But hype aside, the actual contents of their proposals reveal the deep contempt of the black…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
How to Make Mass Incarceration a Political Issue
21 Jul 2005
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon This article was originally published in Black Commentator July 21, 2005 “A great force of suffering accumulated between the basement of heaven and the roof of hell...” Zora Neale Hurston wrote those words almost seventy years ago at the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
It's Time To Build A Mass Movement
20 Jul 2005
Originally published in Black Commentator on June 30, 2005 A mass movement is an assertion of popular leadership by the people themselves. It's Time To Build A Mass Movement by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon “Democracy… does not come from the government, from on high, it…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
2005's Ten Worst Places to be Black
14 Jul 2005
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon This article was originally published in Black Commentator on July 14, 2005 "It's high time to begin constructing useful indices with which to measure the quality of life, not for just a fortunate few, but for the broad masses of our people." The…
Ezili Danto
Haiti Continues To Resist Barack Obama Installed Dictatorship And Military Occupation
11 Feb 2015
by Ezili Danto Through 11 years of military occupation, the Haitian people have never stopped demanding the return of their national and human rights. “As world gas prices go down, and as the Haiti elites continue to block popular demands for sovereignty and participatory democracy, the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on The State Machine’s Machinegun-Totin’ Cops…
20 Aug 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Dey got Glocks, pumps, tasirs, peppurspray, vess— White magik fo’ conjurin’ cases ob “resisin’ aress!”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: War is Peace in Ukraine
11 Feb 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley In its drive to eliminate all rivals, Washington does not hesitate to plunge the planet into war and economic catastrophe. “The capitalist nations want to make the world ungovernable in order to secure their place at the top of the international…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Loretta Lynch's Shame: International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda
04 Feb 2015
by Ann Garrison Brooklyn federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s choice for the next attorney general, took off a few years in early 2000s to serve as a prosecutor with the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda. Lynch is proud of strong-arming Hutu defendants for a tribunal that…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Who is Jeh Johnson, and Why Should Black People Be Hanging Our Heads in Shame?
23 Oct 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones. Now it's headed by a black man, a "progressive Democrat", a Morehouse man & Pentagon lawyer who…