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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…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Baltimore Fries
01 Jul 2015
by BAR poet in residence Nathaniel Turner No fries for Ferguson, no burgers For Baltimore—have it your way…
This Is Hell
Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care
01 Jul 2015
Key Failures of the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare an Obstacle to Universal Health Care by our friends at This Is Hell Radio Trudy Lieberman: “We are replacing a crisis of un-insurance with a crisis of under-insurance, and we’re going to find people with very high deductables and very high cost-…
The Real News Network
Yasmin Nair on the Mixed Blessings of Gay Marriage Victory
01 Jul 2015
by The Real News Network Yasmin Nair on the Mixed Blessings of Gay Marriage Victory
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Ajamu Baraka on Trans Pacific Partnership & Obama Disillusionment
01 Jul 2015
Ajamu Baraka on Trans Pacific Partnership & Obama Disillusionment UrWorld NewsMedia Ajamu Baraka on hymn singing preacher politicians, NAFTA-on-steroids global trade pacts. TPP Baraka explains, guarantees a corporation's right to "takings," a sort of reparations for any "anticipated profits"…
The Real News Network
Why Chicago Won't Go Bankrupt, and Detroit Didn't Have To
02 Jul 2015
Why Chicago Won't Go Bankrupt, and Detroit Didn't Have To The Real News Network
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Both Major U.S. Parties are Plagues on Humanity
02 Jul 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The two corporate parties have collaborated in knocking off countries targeted for invasion and regime change. They have both nurtured the jihadist international network that was created under presidents Carter and Reagan. And presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama are…
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year. “I learned how Chokwe Lumumba valued Black diasporan engagement to build solidarity and power,” writes the author. “I experienced the egalitarian spirit of Eritrea in Jackson’s…
Mark P. Fancher
Dr. Che Guevara’s Prescription for Africa’s AFRICOM Headache
08 Jul 2015
by Mark P. Fancher With the United States military command in the lead, “western troops and advisors continue their forward march across African.” But continental liberation is still possible: it just requires the spark of a decisive example. “At least one African country should, pursuant to its…