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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…
Henry Makori
The African Union Needs a Total Overhaul, Not Mere Reform
01 Mar 2017
by Henry Makori The fundamental problem of the African Union is ideological. And no one typifies this crisis better than Paul Kagame, the terrifying tyrant and imperialist stooge of Rwanda. His new report proposing remedies for reforming the Union belongs in the dustbin. The AU does not need reform…
Tom Stephens
An Open Letter to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission on Their Report: “Systemic Racism Through the Lens of Flint”
01 Mar 2017
by Tom Stephens There were some positive aspects to the report on the poisoning of Flint, Michigan. But, the commission left the responsible officials off the hook, as if “racism” exists without “racists.” The Governor and his men knew exactly what they were doing to the people of Flint, just as…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Make America Great Again
01 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Unlike the president, our poet is firmly grounded in the history as well as the here and now of America. Here is his prescription for what it will take to really make America great again.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Keith Ellison: Sheep-dogging Through Trumpland
02 Mar 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Russian Conspiracy theorists have not yet toppled Donald Trump, but they have neutered much of the Sandernista wing of the Democratic Party. Keith Ellison lost the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee to another warmonger, and quickly joined in…