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Solomon Comissiong
The Confederate Flag is Not the Only Thing That Should Be Abolished
01 Jul 2015
by Solomon Comissiong The Confederate flag is only the tip of the iceberg of bigoted symbolism that permeates the nation’s popular and official culture. “United States society is riddled with racist imagery that ultimately extols men who were devoted slave masters, white supremacists and/or mass…
Thomas C. Mountain
The UN vs Eritrea
01 Jul 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain The United Nations, under the imperial sway of the United States, continues its vicious sanctions against Eritrea, an African country on the Red Sea that seeks only to claim its place as an independent nation. President Obama wants to name Eritrea’s nemesis as head of USAID. “…
David Hoile
Africa Must Leave the ICC
01 Jul 2015
by Dr. David Hoile The International Criminal Court is “an inept, corrupt, political court that does not have Africa’s welfare at heart, only the furtherance of Western, and especially European, foreign policy and its own bureaucratic imperative.” Adding insult to injury, the ICC is incompetent. “…
Angola 3 News
Restorative Justice for Albert Woodfox and the Black Panther Party – An Interview with Prof. Angela A. Allen-Bell
01 Jul 2015
by Angola 3 News The release of Albert Woodfox, the last of the Angola Three still in prison, has been delayed by the State of the Louisiana and a compliant federal court. Woodfax, the Black Panthers, and the whole nation needs “collective healing from a number of social traumas, such as lynchings…
Thomas Ruffin Jr.
President Obama is a Traitor to the Black Race: An Open Letter
01 Jul 2015
by Thomas Ruffin, Jr. The First Black U.S. President perpetuates the modern-day slavery of mass Black incarceration; “espouses, like Rush Limbaugh, an allegiance to ‘American exceptionalism;’” refuses to pardon U.S. political prisoners; makes war on Africa; and has spent two terms in office serving…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Capitalism and Racism are About Who Rules: Analyzing Power in the Here and Now
01 Jul 2015
by Danny Haiphong “Even if the second flag of white rule (the ‘American’ flag being the first) eventually comes down, the racist system that produced the Confederacy remains upright.” Symbolism is important, but only if the forces behind the symbols are understood. The real question is: Who rules…
Paul Street
How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow”
01 Jul 2015
by Paul Street The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black lumpen proletariat and turning it into a largely inert, deindustrialized profit-source whose 'value…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
The 26th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba Launched in Washington, DC
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo “We act not just in defiance of our government, but in obedience to our conscience,” declared Rev. Lucius Walker, founder of IFCO, the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization and initiator of the group’s shipments of medical…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
No ‘Je Suis Charleston’?: The De-Politicization of Black Oppression
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Where was the worldwide revulsion at the racist terror attack in Charleston? “Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ and lulled into a stupefying silence black voices that should have demanded answers as to why the Charleston attack was not considered a terrorist attack…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Gay Still Isn’t the New Black
01 Jul 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If “gay is the new Black,” then it would follow that gays would now be dedicating their collective lives to the struggle against mass Black incarceration, gentrification, austerity, war and capitalist predation. Don’t hold your breath. “Fighting…