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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
#BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration
13 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #Black Lives Matter organization may believe that it is confronting, rather than collaborating with, the Democratic Party, by disrupting candidates’ speeches. However, the tactic inevitably leads to “either a direct or indirect, implicit endorsement of the more…
Jackie Miller
Why is Rev. Edward Pinkney in Prison? Another Case of Political Persecution
19 Aug 2015
by Jackie Miller The Whirlpool Corporation, with the collaboration of local government, is engaged in ethnic cleansing and massive land piracy in mostly Black Benton Harbor, Michigan. “We call it fascism,” writes community leader Rev. Edward Pinkney, now serving 2 ½ to 10 years in prison for…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Black Lives Matter as Much as Syrian Lives Do: The Geopolitical Dimension of White Supremacy and the State
19 Aug 2015
by Danny Haiphong U.S. foreign and domestic policy both serve the same corporate master, whose primary pursuit is profits. “The same trillion dollar military apparatus that Washington utilizes against Syria also militarizes the police to occupy the streets of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Black cities…
Paul Street
Why Bernie Sanders is No Great White Hope for Black America
19 Aug 2015
by Paul Street It should not be surprising that Blacks are uninspired by Bernie Sanders. He has been “remarkably slow to put racial justice anywhere near the center of his campaign,” or to articulate “the very specific racial oppression experienced by Black Americans.” Like many other “liberals,”…
Jemima Pierre
Haiti: An Occupation in Blackface
19 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Jemima Pierre The U.S. invaded and occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, and again occupied the country in 2004 after overthrowing the democratically elected government. The United Nations then partnered with the aggression, installing MINUSTAH, a largely Black and brown…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Luci Murphy: Cultural Warrior for the Movement
19 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Luci Murphy is a “cultural warrior” from Washington DC whose insights are informed by the movements and folkways of people across the globe. “Black people are constantly creating attractive new musical forms, then white people learn them and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Katrina in the White Imagination
19 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan could not contain his gratitude to Hurricane Katrina, which killed or permanently displaced much of New Orleans’ Black residents. Other whites “wondered why they could not have been fortunate enough to…
The Real News Network
California Moves Towards Banning Grand Juries for Police Killings
19 Aug 2015
California Moves Towards Banning Grand Juries for Police Killings by the Real News Network
Rob Urie
America, Race and the Economics of the Precipice
19 Aug 2015
by ROB URIE In neoliberal America, race, class and the naked greed of ruling elites intent on reducing ever-increasing numbers to permanent debt and penury have brought us to the brink of ruin...
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
#BlackLivesMatter Performs a Self-Humiliation at Hillary Clinton’s Hands
20 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Hillary Clinton found it easy to reduce a #BlackLivesMatter delegation to “school children at an elementary civics class,” when they met with her last week. Clinton lectured the activists on the need to make demands on politicians, when all they wanted to do was…