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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…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Color Blind or Just Blind
26 Aug 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson Liberals, the Phony Left, and the supine Black Misleadership Class spread the false gospel that, as bad as things are, they are far better than they used to be. But what could be uglier than summary police murder of Black people, mass Black incarceration, or the dispossession…
Mark P. Fancher
Black Children’s Dreams Crushed on a Field of Nightmares
26 Aug 2015
by Mark P. Fancher Organized Little League baseball last year stripped Chicago’s champion Jackie Robinson West team of their World Series title. The injustice blends their anguished voices “with those of today’s young black scholars who are unfairly suspended or expelled and then shoved through a…
Brendan McQuade
Non-Profits and the Pacification of the Black Lives Matter Movement
26 Aug 2015
by Brendan McQuade It takes many actors to pacify a rebellion. Police repression is only one tool, and often counterproductive. In Chicago, the ACLU hijacked local legislation that would have enhanced the Black community’s power over the police, in favor of an agreement that papers over the…