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The Editors
Glen Ford: Solidarity 2009
01 Sep 2015
by the editors Glen Ford: Solidarity 2009 Northeast Regional... by SolidarityUS Glen Ford discusses the conflict between the tendencies of Black elevation (Black faces in high places) and self determination in the Black community. He describes how many Black leftists could simultaneously be…
The Editors
Barack Obama and the Crisis of Capitalism
02 Sep 2015
by the editors Glen Ford asserts that the crisis of capitalism in Black America is in large part connected to the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president. Ford exposes Obama's lies and the overwhelming silence of the Black political left.
The Editors
From Civil Rights to Black Radicalism
02 Sep 2015
by the editors Glen Ford honors Amiri Baraka and Martin Luther King Jr. as he discusses MLK pre-1963. and the first “March on Washington.”
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Making Black Lives Matter in Riohacha, Colombia
02 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The organized descendants of Africans in Colombia have some lessons to share with Blacks in the U.S. For one thing, it would be “inconceivable” for any Afro-Colombian organizer, “no matter how inexperienced, to get into a meeting with a presidential aspirant…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: U.S. Turns Teen into “Terrorist”
02 Sep 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The U.S government has sentenced a 17-year old to 11 years in a adult prison for little more than expressing admiration for ISIS. The youth’s offenses included trolling a State Department web site established to dissuade young people from…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Where's #BlackLivesMatter In the Struggle Against School Privatization?
02 Sep 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon #BlackLivesMatter's national board promptly reacted to a fulsome DNC endorsement with an apparent repudiation. While rhetorical opposition to Democrats is fine, on-the-ground work against their concrete polices is a step further. Apart from the prison and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
#BlackLivesMatter Hurts Democrats’ Feelings
02 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #BlackLivesMatter organization this week rejected the endorsement of the Democratic National Committee, embarrassing top members of the party. However, the DNC resolution was a perfectly logical outcome of the #BlackLivesMatter strategy to make no substantive…
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Mom, Is it War Yet? – Part II: Two Suns in the Sunset
09 Sep 2015
by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson The United States has been under no threat from any other nation since the end of World War Two, but has invented various menaces to mask its own unrelenting quest for world domination. The Soviets, the “Red” Chinese, falling dominos, and now “terrorists” (created by the U.S…
Thomas C. Mountain
Remembering Dedon Kamathi
09 Sep 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Dedon Kamathi, the former Black Panther and All African Peoples Revolutionary Party activist who educated listeners weekly on KPFK radio, touched many lives, including the author’s. “His spirit, embodied in the revolutionary consciousness of Pan Africanism and revolutionary…
Henry Giroux
Dark Waters: Hurricane Katrina, the Politics of Disposability and the Racism of Malcolm Gladwell
09 Sep 2015
by Henry Giroux Ten years after the Katrina catastrophe pushed 100,000 Black people out of New Orleans, it has become acceptable in polite society to advocate involuntary dispersal of Black and poor people. “This is the reasoning in support of creating the dehumanized Other, one that rationalizes…