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Ama Biney
Unveiling White Supremacy in the Academy
04 May 2016
by Dr. Ama Biney Europeans colonized the world, and maintain their control through paradigms of thinking “that continue to produce ‘black skins in white masks’ in the twenty first century and leave intact colonial patterns of control, domination and exploitation.” This world of “coloniality” is…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Self-Determination and Socialism: The Fight for Socialism is Now!
04 May 2016
by Danny Haiphong The ills of capitalism – a system ruled by the rich – can only be cured by appropriating the wealth and power of the rich, through socialism. In Black America, an opportunistic class emerged that seeks “to attach the Black masses to capitalist rule.” Yet, this class – which…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Mr. Obama Goes to Flint
04 May 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Barack Obama has expressed concern for any number of human tragedies in the nation and world, and waged wars under the banner of “humanitarian” compassion. But it took him two years to visit the scene of the poisoning of a largely Black…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Last Gasp Imperialism
04 May 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama’s remaining days in office may be short, but “there is no reason to mourn or rejoice Obama’s departure because he will be followed by someone who likes his foreign policy as it is.” Hillary Clinton was his partner in imperial…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Detroit Teachers Strike Against Disaster Capitalism
05 May 2016
The corporate narrative on the Detroit teacher’s sick-out is that the public schools are “failing,” just as the city has “failed” to manage its own finances. But the state has intervened in Detroit’s schools for decades, and has destabilized the public system with charters. “Charter schools play a…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Drain the Swamp
04 May 2016
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our poet tires of the swatting zika-infested mosquitoes that bring us emergency managers and privatization, of seeing the crocodile tears of our black big city mayors and the rest of the black misleadership class. this week he advocates a more…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Bernie to Deliver Captive Constituencies to the Democratic Convention
05 May 2016
Bernie will take his campaign all the way to the convention. We called him a sheepdog back in May 2015, and he's filling exactly that role, enticing the Dems' captive constituencies back into the trunk of the party one more time, where their votes will count but not their demands. The…
Amber Murrey
“Our stomachs Will Make Themselves Heard”: What Sankara Can Teach Us About Food Justice Today
11 May 2016
by Amber Murrey In recent weeks, news of food crises in countries across Africa has been intensifying. From the Democratic Republic of Congo all the way down to South Africa – via Malawi, Zimbabwe, Angola and many others – low rainfall has contributed to millions more being left vulnerable. “Thomas…
Jeb Sprague
Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite Versus the Elite
11 May 2016
by Jeb Silgado-Sprague The two leading candidates in the upcoming Dominican Republic presidential elections differ little when it comes to economic policy and the targeting of migrant and migrant-descendant communities. The political establishment spouts the racial rhetoric of an “Hispanic” state,…
Zwelinzima Vavi
Zuma’s Denialism and Betrayal
11 May 2016
by Zwelinzima Vavi South African President Jacob Zuma run “a pro-big business government that is implementing neoliberal and anti-poor economic policies,” writes the author, a former trade union leader. Zuma “should have introduced a national beneficiation program complemented by a socially and…