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by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
EZ Pass -- Tip of the Road Privatization Vacuum Cleaner
23 Feb 2017
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Since EZ Pass has made toll collection possible without stopping traffic. The Obama administration increased the number of interstate highways where toll lanes are allowed, and the Trump administration is expected to rely even more heavily on borrowing from…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Misleadership Class: High-Speed Sell-Outs
23 Feb 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The NAACP and the Urban League want to leave Internet neutrality to the tender mercies of the Republican-controlled Congress. But that’s nothing new. The Black Misleadership Class has been selling out the people’s interests to giant telecom companies since 2006, in…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Malcolm X and Human Rights in the Time of Trumpism: Transcending the Masters Tools
22 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Corporate Media Enemy
22 Feb 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Donald Trump and the corporate media are locked in mutual hostility, but they are both enemies of the poor and oppressed. Media tell non-stop lies about foreign leaders abroad and Black people here at home . As servants of corporate power, the…
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 27, 2017
23 Feb 2017
No Justice to be Found in Louisiana “Louisiana has the most broken public defender system of any state in the country,” said Kristen Clark, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which joined with the Southern Poverty Law Center to bring a class action suit charging…
Critical Resistance
On Trump's Pro-Policing Executive Orders: Keep Fighting, Keep Resisting
01 Mar 2017
by Critical Resistance Increases in policing produces these results: insecurity; broken families and occupied communities; divestment of public resources for education, health, recreation, housing; disenfranchisement for communities targeted by policing and courts; fear and hatred; more inequality…
Josh Hoxie
What Explains the Racial Wealth Divide?
01 Mar 2017
by Josh Hoxie Despite mountains of facts, two-thirds of Americans continue to insist institutional racism is not the root of social inequality. Instead, they locate the problem in individual behavior, or in lack of education, or single-parent households. Yet, “white two-parent households turn out…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Maryland County Commission Favors Developer Over African Burial Ground
01 Mar 2017
by BAR Editor and Columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo When a planning board in a wealthy Washington suburb sided with developers that want to obliterate an African burial ground, the only concession they made to Blacks was to use ground radar to search for human remains -- as if there is a question of who…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Contrary to White Liberal Opinion, Donald Trump is no Communist
01 Mar 2017
by Danny Haiphong Feeling not a bit ridiculous, so-called progressives carry signs depicting the right-wing billionaire Donald Trump under a hammer and sickle flag. “The Democratic Party and its loyal white liberal base have spearheaded a dangerous Neo-McCarthyist campaign that pits…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Liberals Expose Themselves
01 Mar 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Democrats and phony progressives talk a lot about mounting a great “resistance” to Donald Trump, yet gave Barack Obama a blank check to pursue much the same policies. Trump will find it difficult to exceed Obama in deportations, and damn near…