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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Apocalypse Hillary
13 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Donald Trump is a dead racist walking; there’s no reason for “progressives” to vote for Clinton for fear of Trump. But everyone “should be terrified of Hillary Clinton getting the kind of landslide that she will interpret as a mandate for war with Russia.” Even…
The Real News Network
The "Ferguson Effect" and Minimizing Demands for Police Reform
13 Oct 2016
The "Ferguson Effect" and Minimizing Demands for Police Reform by the Real News Network
Horace G. Campbell
Why East Africa Should Reject an Economic Deal with Europe
19 Oct 2016
by Horace G. Campbell Europe is in crisis, and yet countries in East Africa are ready to sign on a poorly understood trade agreement with the EU whose overall impact will be disastrous for years to come. The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) will favor trade in the direction of Europe and stunt…
Solomon Comissiong
Hillary Clinton, The Democratic Party Plantation and The Black Political Pundits Who Do Their Bidding
19 Oct 2016
by Solomon Comissiong The Democrats and Republicans are both proven evils. “Donald Trump is a devoted racist and xenophobe and Hillary Clinton is an imperialist who has a track record of destroying human life.” Now if the time for Black people to “take possession of the politics within our…
Oscar Wailoo
A Canadian Vote for Trump: Let America Get a Taste of It’s Own Medicine
19 Oct 2016
by Oscar Wailoo Hillary Clinton is right; she does have the experience to be a U.S. president: a track record in slaughtering unlimited numbers of people. Donald Trump, the bombastic, “utterly cold psychopath,” is also well suited to the American presidency. He would build walls and set loose the…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Black President and the Black-on-the-Inside Preacher, A Bad Day for Identity Politics
19 Oct 2016
by Ann Garrison The man most responsible for the death of six million Congolese – the worst genocide since World War Two – holds periodic celebrations in cities all around the world to celebrate the accomplishments of his regime. Rwandan President Paul Kagame is armed, financed and protected by the…
Benjamin Woods
Advancing Black Liberation Through Economic Justice
19 Oct 2016
by Benjamin Woods Black America has always revered education as a stairway to progress, but the data show that “education has not created social mobility for Black people, and it has done little to close the Black-white wage gap.” Black millennials put far less trust in the U.S. electoral system,…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
South African Students March on the Chamber of Mines to demand #Fees Must Fall
19 Oct 2016
by BAR Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo The Freedom Charter, the socialist document that united South Africans in the battle against apartheid, has become the focus of a new wave of activism among the nation’s students. Protests have shut down most of the country’s universities. “Activists…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Henry Louis Gates' $10 Million Scam
19 Oct 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, “the supreme hustler-in-chief of black America,” has sold his white corporate friends on a $10 million scheme to advise the rich on how to end Black poverty. The project claims to be “non-ideological” -- another way of…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition to Hold a People’s Convention on Self-Determination
19 Oct 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford On November 5 and 6, a coalition of Black organizations will put forward a 19-point National Agenda for Self-Determination, to chart a pathway to real democracy and freedom. “Every central demand, every strategy of struggle, must be formulated with the goal of self…