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Tianna Paschel
Walter Rodney and the Racial Underpinnings of Global Inequality
29 Dec 2016
by Tianna Paschel While inequality has become a topic of increased popularity and politicization in recent years, most of the attention has focused on how 1% own an increasingly large share of the world’s wealth, rather than on inequalities between nations. In a global context in which national…
Spencer Woodman
A Quarter of Florida's Black Citizens Can't Vote. A New Referendum Could Change That.
29 Dec 2016
by Spencer Woodman A Florida court may allow the voters to throw out the state’s lifetime ban against allowing convicted felons to vote – a prohibition that had disenfranchised nearly a quarter of the Black population. The court’s approval clears the way for a grassroots coalition “to move to the…
Dana Bazelon
This Cruel New Policy Makes It Near Impossible for Kids to See Their Incarcerated Parents
29 Dec 2016
by Dana Bazelon Adding yet another cruelty to the world’s most monstrous system of mass incarceration, federal prison officials restrict visitation to immediate family members. Yet, relatively few prisoners are legally married. “The practical impact of the policy for most of my clients,” says the…
Jon Reynolds
Delusions Shattered: How Democrats Lost Claims to a Moral High Ground by Ignoring Obama's Transformation Into Bush
29 Dec 2016
by Jon Reynolds In defeat, Democrats now cast themselves as defiant “fascist-fighters” and saviors of civil society. Yet, they were silent or supportive when Barack Obama spent eight years committing the same crimes as George Bush, and adding his own atrocities to the record. Donald Trump’s victory…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Message to the Movement Against Donald Trump: Let the Empire Die
03 Jan 2017
by Danny Haiphong The Democrats are attacking from the Right, desperate to stir up war fever. “The destabilization of Russia is critical to finance capital's agenda of self-enrichment from the chaos of political catastrophe.” When Wall Street demands that the country be put on a war footing, the…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Communities Betrayed and Sick, the EPA Office of Civil Rights Under the Spotlight
03 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Just because Donald Trump hates the EPA doesn’t mean the agency has ever acted in the interest of Black people. “Whether the EPA is controlled by the Democratic or Republican Parties, the agency has had a consistent and negative impact on Black and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Propaganda Gift to Trump
03 Jan 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Political hysteria has its ironies. President Obama has just signed into law a new office of government propaganda that is intended to prevent any warming of relations with Russia under a Trump administration. But, President Trump will appoint…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Trump’s Neo-Fascism will be Built on Neo-Fascism of Obama and Democrat Party
03 Jan 2017
by Ajamu Baraka White “radicals” and Black “nationalists” join with corporate Democrats and “latte” liberals” to mouth nonsense about Russians. Clinton Democrats attack Trump from the right -- and sweep know-nothings of all stripes along with them. “Collaboration from the left with the new…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Locating Fascism on the Home Map
04 Jan 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In decadence and decline, the U,S. has produced two strong strains of fascism that now vie for supremacy. The First Black President, now outgoing, represents the “cosmopolitan, global obsessed” variety of fascist. Donald Trump hails from an older fascist strain, “…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
1st 100 Daze
03 Jan 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner The Trumpacolypse is indeed a new day, notes our poet in residence, but it's the same old era.