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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.
The Editors
Glen Ford Speaks about the Black “Mis-Leadership” Class
30 Aug 2015
by the editors Glen Ford discusses the connections between Cory Booker and Democrats to the right wing Bradley Foundation. Ford denounces the various leaders handpicked and paid by organizations like the Bradley Foundation. The rise of Black corporate Democrats who promote right wing agendas…
The Editors
Glen Ford: Corporate Assault on Public Education
30 Aug 2015
by the editors Glen Ford discusses the connections between public education and the rise of corporate Democrats. Ford specifically denounces Cory Booker, a Democrat who has ties to right wing organizations. Describing the actions and policies of Cory Booker and Barack Obama, Ford calls out the…
Cynthia McKinney
“My Dedon, my Dedon, my Dedon: Dedon Kamathi Still Ready for the Revolution”
01 Sep 2015
by Cynthia McKinney In a time when true friendship is a lost art, I can truly say that Dedon Kamathi was my friend. How difficult it is for me to use the past tense.
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
South Sudan Conflict Won't End Until Oil Wealth Benefits South Sudanese: An Interview with Horace Campbell
01 Sep 2015
by Ann Garrison Scholar Horace Campbell warns that unaccountable leaders and foreign interests cannot bring justice to the people of war-torn South Sudan. The United States bear heavy responsibility. “People around Barack Obama himself, like Gayle Smith, people from the Enough Project, Susan Rice,…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
On Black Lives Matter, Hillary Clinton, and the Necessity of Demands
01 Sep 2015
by Danny Haiphong Why ask what lies in Hillary Clinton’s heart? She has already shown the world that she loves war and bankers. When #BlackLivesMatter activists inquired of her inner feelings, Clinton lectured them “about what she believed was their flawed strategy” and “told them to…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Weekly Mass Murders of a Warfare State
01 Sep 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner What is it about capitalist exploitation, cutthroat Competition, alienation, isolation of a Warfare State That drives men mad?
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Fugitive Slave Act of 2015
01 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The Black female mayor of the nation’s capital wants to launch a dragnet against ex-offenders in the community, targeting them for search and bodily seizure on the streets or in their homes, any time of day or night. Muriel Bowser’s draconian…