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Paul Bermanzohn
Hiding in Plain Sight: The History of the War on Drugs
26 Aug 2015
by Paul Bermanzohn The War on Drugs was a direct response to the African American uprisings of the 1960s. Three hundred cities rose in Black rebellion. A a fervor for change spread across the land. Richard Nixon “emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the…
Concerning Reactionaries and Thugs: The New Black Panther Party
26 Aug 2015
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard The recent assault on former Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad reveals, once again, that the so-called New Black Panther Party is a collection of provocateurs and would-be assassins. “Although they stole our Ten Point Platform and Program and…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Miss Hillree an de Matter ob Blak Lives
26 Aug 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner “Blak Lifes Mattur, yeah, but dey’s unnecessary Blak Lifes Mattur, ‘til Friday de 20 ob January
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Carl Dix: Revolutionary Communist – Fighting the Plague of Mass Incarceration
26 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Veteran activist Carl Dix discusses his early incarceration and how he became a revolutionary and a major figure in the fight against mass incarceration. The capitalist system has no place for Black and brown youth in this country. Its solution…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders' Conservative Foreign Policy
26 Aug 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Bernie Sanders and his supporters claim he is different, a breath of fresh air. Yet he “won’t state for the record how his foreign policy differs” from Clinton and the Republicans. “He doesn’t question why the United States has the right to…
The Real News Network
#FightForDyett -- What Real Organizing Looks Like: South Side Chicago Parents Stage Hunger Strike at Dyett High School
26 Aug 2015
by the Real News Network Call Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at 312-744-3300. Tell him the whole world is watching, he can give the parents their high school back RIGHT NOW. Call Alderman Will Burns at 773-536-8103 with the same message."
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Katrina: The Logic of Genocide
27 Aug 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The best thing that could happen to poor Black people is for a Katrina-like catastrophe to hit their city, scattering them to the four corners of the country. So says an article in a leading “liberal” magazine, which maintains that “the forced exodus of Katrina…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Organizing, Not Activism: Chicago's Dyett HS Hunger Strikers Mark 11th Day Resisting Closing & Privatization of Their School
28 Aug 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Activism is showing up, speaking out, demonstrating here, tweeting there, disrupting that and blogging that. But activists are only responsible to themselves. Organizing, as Chicago's Jitu Brown points out, is entirely different from mere activism. Organizers…
The Real News Network
Katrina Victims Were Forced into Exile
26 Aug 2015
by the Real News Network
The Editors
Rockcat Stadium “Development” Blasted by Glen Ford
30 Aug 2015
by the editors Glen Ford blasts the development of the Rockcat Stadium. Ford asserts that the burden of the costs would fall on black and brown communities. Ford connects heavily funded projects like these to ethnic cleansing due to the dynamics of racism in a capitalist system.