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by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Christopher Columbus Lives On Today Through US Capitalism
21 Oct 2015
by Danny Haiphong Uncle Sam walks in the genocidal shoes of Christopher Columbus, laying waste to the people’s and resources of the world. “US capitalism's alliance of death is motivating many nations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to form a military and economic partnership with Russia and…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Militarization of U.S. Police is a Reflection of United States Foreign Policy
21 Oct 2015
by Abayomi Azikiwe “The militarization of U.S. society is as old as the American system itself,” but the policy kicked into a high gear in the mid to late Sixties, to crush Black urban revolt. In Ferguson, the cops revealed themselves as domestic shock troops for capitalism. “These are the same…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Reckless Eyeballing in the Former Chocolate City and Rise Up October in New York
21 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Until this decade, Washington, DC was the quintessential “Chocolate City,” where Blackness was normal and white folks acclimated themselves to the environment. No more. Jason Goolsby became the latest victim of reckless “eyeballing of a white…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Lives Don’t Matter in Israel
21 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If you want to observe a racist lynch mob, go to Israel, the “world’s worst apartheid state.” After being shot by police, an innocent Eritrean immigrant was pursued by an Israeli mob that “kicked him, threw chairs and benches at his head and…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016
22 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders for president. Based on a “calculus of fear,” African Americans “cast their votes in national…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
TFA/BlackLivesMatter/CampaignZero Activist Brittney Packnett (Almost) Tries to Defend the Indefensible
22 Oct 2015
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Stung by growing public recognition of Teach For America's heinous role in destabilizing communites and destroying public education, CampaignZero/BlackLivesMatter activist & TFA's Brittney Packnett took to Huffington Post last week to defend herself and TFA…
Julian Cola
Brazil Welcomes Dr. Carl Hart
28 Oct 2015
by Julian Cola Brazil, with the largest Black population outside of Africa, attempts to perpetuate the myth that it is a “racial democracy.” If so, it is an incredibly violent one. “Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, stated that 50,000 people are killed in Brazil every year,” many…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Miners Shot Down!: “The Marikana Massacre Represents the Beginning of the End of the ANC”
28 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The tombstones of apartheid were laid at Sharpeville in 1960 and Soweto, 1976. History will record that the death knell for the African National Congress regime was sounded at Marikana, in 2012, where ANC honcho and mine stockholder Cyril…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Settler Gentrification
30 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black urbanites are under siege “because the dictates of capitalism and racism demand that white people return to the cities they fled.” Landlords break every law in the book to rid themselves of Black tenants to make room for the newcomers.…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People
30 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both #BlackLivesMatter and Campaign Zero have earned semi-official status as Democratic Party affiliates. The…