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Norman Richmond
Remembering Mama Africa Miriam Makeba
09 Mar 2016
Remembering Mama Africa Miriam Makeba Last week marked the 86th birthday of the late South African singer and Miriam Makeba, known to millions worldwide as “Mama Africa.” She “used her voice as a weapon in the struggle against apartheid” in her native land and came to personify the…
Solomon Comissiong
The Trump Movement: Not as Fringe as Some Might Think
09 Mar 2016
by Solomon Comissiong Donald Trump didn’t invent his racist followers – “U.S. society did.” Although “his rallies are like a gathering of racist village idiots,” they make up a huge proportion of the white population. “Even if he were to lose this presidential race, his followers will still be…
Charles Quist-Adade
The Coup That Set Ghana and Africa 50 Years Back
09 Mar 2016
by Charles Quist-Adade Nkrumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and self-serving Ghanaian soldiers to stage that terrible coup on 24 February 1966. It was a major setback, not only for…
Caleb Maupin
Oil Price Manipulation and the Global Capitalist Crisis
09 Mar 2016
by Caleb Maupin The truly rich people – the ones who really run the capitalist world – are not the household names, or “the Illuminati, the Freemasons, or some secret society.” The bankers and big oil – the Lords of Capital – give the orders. “The alternative is when rational human beings run the…
David Bacon
Lead in Flint Water, Mold in Detroit Schools: An Anatomy of a Free Market Disaster 
09 Mar 2016
by David Bacon Detroit’s schools have been laid waste, and democracy in every majority Black city has been destroyed, as have the brain cells of children in Flint. “Michigan cities have been used as a laboratory for market-based policies and the most extreme forms of austerity.” Water, even…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Huey Newton: A Revolutionary Hero
09 Mar 2016
by Danny Haiphong The film that does justice to Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party has yet to be created. Stanley Nelson’s PBS depiction “is riddled with distortion and inaccuracy” and virtually ignores the party’s enormous “contributions to the historic struggle for socialist…
Paul Street
“All Lives Matter”: More Stupid White Noise
09 Mar 2016
by Paul Street Mountains of statistics testify to the national disregard for Black lives. But white supremacists fire back that Blacks have “brought it on themselves” and victimize their own people through “Black-on-Black” crime, ignoring the core reality that “intra-Back violence takes places…
Kali Akuno
Countering the Confederate “Spring”: the Assault on Black Political Power in Jackson, MS
09 Mar 2016
by the Jackson Human Rights Institute and Cooperation Jackson Majority Black Jackson, Mississippi is about to be stripped of control of its most valuable assets by a Republican legislature. Everywhere, white capital is determined to retain their control over all the capital accumulating processes…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The “Negro Whisperer” from 1926 to 2016: Seasonal Workers
09 Mar 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo MSNBC has decided that its stable of in-house Black Democrats is no longer in season, and can be discarded. Melissa Harris-Perry is hurt. She and others specializing in interpreting Black folks to white folks (and vice versa) are being pushed…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders and the End of the Democratic Party
09 Mar 2016
If Bernie Sanders supporters are serious about making fundamental change, they should start a new party, one that does more than run in billion dollar elections every couple of years. Hillary Clinton’s impending primaries victory “is an opportunity to break with a system which is incapable of being…