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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Return of the “Happy” Slave
20 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley How does a writer make slavery a light and breezy read for children? By presenting a story that’s comforting to white bosses at corporate publishing houses, that’s how. The same racial hierarchy that prevailed under the slavocracy calls the…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Behind the Lead Curtain
20 Jan 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner I. The scent of sulfur, scandalous Skippy-Gate brew— With an arresting officer; some shit ain’t neurosurgery or rocket science—ain’t as nuanced, or complicated as Some claim. Negroz are in the Way Back Machine—a moral morass— Slipping into darkness at the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Poisoning Black Cities
21 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford They emptied New Orleans. Now they have poisoned Flint, Michigan. The corporate campaign to ethnically cleanse U.S. cities knows no bounds. Michigan’s emergency financial manager law is “part of Wall Street’s tool kit to starve, bulldoze, redline,…
Ricot Jean-Pierre
The Blood of the Earth: Agriculture, Land Rights, and Haitian History
27 Jan 2016
by Ricot Jean-Pierre This month marks the sixth anniversary of the earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians. The survivors face the aftershocks of disaster capitalism, in which the Haitian elite and foreign corporations – backed by the US government, World Bank, and Inter-American…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Uganda: Upcoming Elections and Ongoing U.S. Influence: An Interview with Milton Allimadi
27 Jan 2016
by Ann Garrison President Gen. Yoweri Museveni, Washington’s dependable hit-man in Africa, has been in office for 30 years. Museveni could rig next month’s elections, as he has previously done. However, “even the U.S. is aware that Museveni is a spent force and that his major concern is how to…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
McKesson's Colbert Appearance is the Direction Imperialism Wants for the Black Lives Matter Movement
27 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong DeRay McKesson, the twitterist whose followers have met twice with Hillary Clinton, appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show to conduct what looked like another of Campaign Zero’s “racial sensitivity sessions.” Outrageously, McKesson has compared charter schools to the Black Panther…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Flint, Michigan and Democracy
27 Jan 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Disaster capitalists demand – and get – government subsidies to carry out their crimes. However, the poor victims of corporate mayhem can’t count on their elected officials to demand even modest compensation. Flint, Michigan’s mayor “could have…
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Ph.D and Kevin Berend
The EPA Blame Game and the Flint Lead Atrocity: Criminal Prosecutions Must Follow
27 Jan 2016
by EPA editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends The law is clear: once officials at the federal Environmental Protection Agency were made aware of hazardous material in Flint, Michigan’s water, they were required by statute to take action to remove it. The chief of the EPA…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ethnic Cleansing: The Ultimate Environmental Racism
28 Jan 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford What happened in Flint was not a simple case of environmental racism, but ethnic cleansing by lethal means. The ethnic cleansing of the cities – otherwise known as gentrification – is an existential threat to Black people in the United States. Flint signals that…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
What Would A Real Discussion on Reparations Look Like? Have We Ever Had One?
28 Jan 2016
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What would a serious discussion on reparations look like? Will anybody ever come up with a realistic roadmap to get there, or is reparations talk just that –- all talk? Is reparations an answer to class politics, or is it the politics of a particular class? And…