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Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles
Black-White Earnings Gap Returns to 1950 Levels
30 Nov 2016
by Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles Gains in Black educational levels have been largely nullified, according to the authors. “The economic benefits that should have come from the substantial gains in education for black men over the past 75 years have been completely undone by the changing…
Bill Quigley
Twelve Ideas Post-Election from Front Line Organizers
30 Nov 2016
by Bill Quigley Never in living history -- not even when Ronald Reagan won the White House -- have activists been so visibly distraught. The author has gathered some suggestions for coping with post-election trauma. “We need to stay centered, to foster actual human connection and build a…
Julian Cola
Reparations Hypocrisy: God Bless The Liberal That’s Got His Own
30 Nov 2016
by Julian Cola After two and a quarter centuries, legions of Americans are calling for repair of the U.S. voting system by abolishing the Electoral College. However, white liberals just “lost an election, not hundreds of years of labor, their names, languages, cultures, and customs. But they insist…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
The Contradictions of the Trump Phenomenon and the Desperation of the US War Machine
30 Nov 2016
by Danny Haiphong Many of the folks tearing their hair out over Donald Trump’s victory were far less alarmed at the Democrats’ role in the unending wars for global domination. For them, war is a sideshow to domestic politics, even when it kills millions. They claim to be anti-racist, but “…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Occupy White Owned Land Says EFF’s Malema -- and Solidarity with the Cuban People in Wake of Castro’s Death
30 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo In the transition to Black majority rule, the African National Congress shelved the Freedom Charter, the guiding document of the South African liberation struggle. The Charter maintained that the nation’s natural resources and land belonged to the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Agenda Report on the Honor Roll
30 Nov 2016
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democrats, through their PropOrNot web site and a compliant corporate media, have targeted BAR and other sites as purveyors of Russian propaganda and partly responsible for Hillary Clinton’s defeat. We’re proud to be on their hit list. Their…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Fascism with a Democratic Party Face
01 Dec 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford BAR and 12 other leftwing web sites have been put on a hit list publicized by the Washington Post. Fascists of the Democratic kind are responsible. “Had Clinton won the election, she would have begun a campaign of repression against the Left along the same national…
Colin Vanderburg
How Rock and Roll Became White
07 Dec 2016
by Colin Vanderburg Rock and roll music has always been a site of struggle over issues of race and racism. In this insightful review, Colin Vanderburg surveys what Jack Hamilton has to say regarding how rock music succumbed to the lure of American racism.
Ronnie Kasrils
Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK): How the Armed Struggle Succeeded
07 Dec 2016
by Ronnie Kasrils Despite its 30 years of sacrifice, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), the armed force of the South African liberation struggle, “does not feature in school history curricula, no official films have been produced, and no military record is established.” The author, a former MK commander,…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
A Eulogy for Fidel
07 Dec 2016
by Danny Haiphong Fidel was a political giant, to whom the U.S. left is indebted, “not only because he and the Cuban people have protected Black revolutionaries such as Assata Shakur, Robert Williams, and Huey Newton from US government persecution.” The revolution he led built “a new society and a…