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The Editors
Glen Ford at the Black is Back Coalition's National Conference on Black Community Control of Police
01 Sep 2015
by the editors Glen Ford discusses the recent murders of black people to a “Black Mass Incarceration State” and its connections to the “Black Mis-Leadership Class.” Ford holds accountable the white power structure AND the black leaders who voted and supported increased funding for police,…
The Editors
Glen Ford: U.S. Imperialism Hopping on Just One Leg
01 Sep 2015
by the editors Glen Ford exposes the U.S. plan to maintain economic and political power to combat China and other “third world” countries' growing economic power. Ford connects European colonization, war, and racism to U.S. imperialism in the Asian countries, and asserts that the U.S. will be…
The Editors
Glen Ford at Black is Black Coalition National Annual Conference-- August 16
01 Sep 2015
by the editors Glen Ford addresses the collapse of the Left, especially the Black Left as Obama began his first campaign for president. Ford asserts that there was “liquidation of Black politics” as many Black leftists became “Obamites,” that real black politics were buried under the euphoria…
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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…