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Jeffrey B. Perry
On the 132nd Anniversary of Pioneering Black Radical Hubert Henry Harrison's Birth...
29 Apr 2015
by Jeffrey B. Perry The same folks who'd have us believe politics is just Republicans and Democrats, and that the current black political class is the culmination of black history have tried to erase the history of black giants like socialist Hubert Henry Harrison, whom historian Joel A. Rogers…
Eric Zuesse
Barack Obama Fights to Spread GMO Foods Throughout Europe
29 Apr 2015
by Eric Zuesse Despite his campaign promises to label GMO and other "frankenfoods" President Barack Obama in office has been the slavish creature of Monsanto, BIg Ag and the profiteers who would hijack and imperil the global food supply. His secretly negotiated so-called "trade deals"…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
BAR Interviews Samira Rice, Mother of Cleveland's Tamir Rice, Part 1 of 2
29 Apr 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo In another of the constant drumbeat of unprovoked police killings, Tamir Rice was summarily executed by Cleveland police last November, for allegedly playing with a toy gun. Since the killing of her son, his mother Samaria Rice…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: American Responsibility For Global Refugee Crises
30 Apr 2015
By Margaret Kimberley When refugees from the Indian subcontinent, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America and other places risk their lives for a chance at low-wage precarious labor in Europe or the US, it's because of decisions taken at the center of global economic and political power,…
David Swanson
A Preview of Coming Wars: Do Black Lives Matter in Africa?
06 May 2015
by David Swanson  The U.S. military is today the preeminent power in Africa, enjoying freedom of movement throughout the continent. Like night follows day, the U.S. military presence has brought regime change, failed states, political instability and constant warfare. The occupation of Africa has…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
U.S. Empire-Building “Interventions”
06 May 2015
by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson After World War II, the U.S. rushed to replace European colonialism with its own, corporate variety. When it encountered resistance in Korea and Vietnam, Washington deployed “the strategy and tactics derived from the fundamental principles of white America: Negro slavery and…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Freddie Gray, and the Lessons of the Dyson Attack on Cornel West
06 May 2015
by Danny Haiphong The Baltimore rebellion is significant, not just because it is the first post-Ferguson uprising in a major Black American city, but because it points up “the weakened political position of the police and its protectors in the Black misleadership class.” The political…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
B’more Ferguson than Commander-in-Chief, AG or CBC…
06 May 2015
by BAR Poet-inResidence Raymond Nat Turner Obama’s song to Baltimore: Hey-hey, ya-ya/ la-la, ha-ha… Freddie’s dead/that’s what I said…”
Ajamu Nangwaya
Toronto’s 1992 Yonge Street Uprising: Afrikan Resistance to State/Police Violence
06 May 2015
by Ajamu Nangwaya The Yonge Street rebellion was very much in the mold of Black America’s urban uprisings, sparked by police abuse. The disturbances led to a spate of reforms, some of which were later reversed by a right-wing provincial regime. Corporate media and the political establishment “…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Still No Justice in Baltimore
06 May 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black people have been denied even the semblance of justice for so long in the United States, the mere act of bringing charges against police is received as cause for jubilation. However, “there should be no celebrating unless all of the police…