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The Ford Report: Life Sentences Are Slow Death Behind the Walls
08 Feb 2017
by the Real News Network U.S. incarceration levels remain so high because this country hands down longer sentences than anyplace else in the world. People sentenced to life serve twice as much time behind bars as they did in the 1980s. The Trump administration, not give to the token gestures of…
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How Democrats Paved The Way For Trump-Era School Privatization
08 Feb 2017
Before Trump nominated Betsy DeVos as Sec'y of Education, Democrats savaged public schools with Obama's Race To The Top program.
The Real News Network
Billionaire Opponent of Public Education is Now Sec'y of Education. Get Ready For It.
08 Feb 2017
Trump's new Sec'y of Education is a billionaire who has spent her entire career campaigning against public education and for Christian schools, home schooling and privatization options of all kinds.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
DeVos, Obama, Booker, Trump – All Enemies of Public Education
09 Feb 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Betsy DeVos barely won confirmation as the next secretary of education, so dreadful is the performance of the charter schools she promotes in Michigan. But the educational atrocities of the DeVos schools are inseparable from the larger war against public education…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Roland Martin: That Hustla Ova There Tryna Sell Us School Privatization
09 Feb 2017
Roland Martin pretends to be a journalist. But what does a guy do when the one percent won't pay for an informed public? Roland is a hustla for hire, and he's found a dependable set of clients. Roland is all about blackening up and selling us the destruction and privatization of public schools,…
This Is Hell
Not My President? How About Not My System?
08 Feb 2017
Not My President? How About Not My System? by our friends at This Is Hell Radio BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon asks whether, when we say "not my president" are we just hollering for Hillary, or maybe Cory Booker? Shouldn't we be saying tht none of them have ever been our president? Trump is…
Kiilu Nyasha
Ida B. Wells-Barnett : Iola, Princess of the Press & Feminist Crusader for Equality and Justiceb
15 Feb 2017
By Kiilu Nyasha Ida B. Wells was the kind of black leader we don't see much of any more. Unlike today's leaders, the heads of nonprofit organizations financed by the self-interested generosity of the one percent, Ida's career was financed by the readers of the black press, from ordinary African…
Thomas C. Mountain
Gambia; A Very African Coup
15 Feb 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain Just another week in neocolonial Africa, where every country’s military is armed, clothed, equipped and trained by the US through AFRICOM. Reports in the western press of a corrupt president refusing to leave office and being ousted to universal acclaim by the joint…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Alternative Facts on 7 Countries’ Terrorists
15 Feb 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This and every year since the dawn of this country, most terrorist acts in the US have been perpetrated by white Christian males. So how, our poet asks, do we make sense of Trump's attempted travel ban and its effect on terrorism inside the US? Do they…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Welcome (To the United Front Aganist Facism)
15 Feb 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Come as you are, and be ready to build the world we all deserve, invites our poet, to the united front against facism. Wherever you come from, wherever you were this morning or last week, your hand your mind your heart and energies are welcomed in this…