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US Has Interfered in More Elections Than Any Other Nation
29 Mar 2017
BAR executive editor Glen Ford on The Real News Network There is no proof that Russia had anything to do with the Wikileaks revelations about the Democratic National Committee's sabotage of Bernie Sanders' campaign. However, even if the Kremlin did interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections, the actions…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Sanctuary Cities” and Black Community Control of the Police
29 Mar 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Donald Trump’s war against immigrants is a fascist-inspired offensive that is inseparable from his plans to forcefully pacify Black America.” We must oppose Trump sending in the feds to lock up immigrants or to police the Black community. “Sanctuary is only…
Abayomi Azikiwe
Ahmed Kathrada, Veteran Communist and South African National Liberation Icon, Dies
05 Apr 2017
by Abayomi Azikiwe Another of South Africa’s founding revolutionaries has been laid to rest. Ahmed Mohamed “Kathy” Kathrada, a stalwart of the African National Congress who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, recently wrote “an open letter to President Jacob Zuma, the current…
Book Extract: South Africa’s Corporatized Liberation: A Critical Analysis of the ANC in Power
05 Apr 2017
by Dale McKinley Not only did the ANC consciously choose (before 1994) to turn its ideological and strategic back on the possibilities of organizing a massive wellspring of popular power to pursue much more thoroughgoing systemic change, but it also made a conscious choice after 1994 to exercise…
Dr. Martin Luther King
Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence
05 Apr 2017
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the following remarks at Riverside Church, in New York City, on April 4, 1967. The speech marked Dr. King’s decisive break with President Lyndon Johnson, whom many considered a friend of civil rights. Exactly one year after his…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Brother Harvey Matthews: “I’m Fighting for My Ancestors.” The Bethesda African Cemetery: Part II
05 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo When whites dispossessed an established Black community in Bethesda, Maryland, a half century ago, they “destroyed the life that we loved,” said Harvey Matthews, who grew up near a Black cemetery that has been paved over. The damage is more than…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Baltimore's Mayor Rejects $15 Minimum Wage Bill, Sharpening the Divide between Black Workers and Black Political leadership
05 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong Who enforces poverty wages in Black America? In Baltimore, a Black mayor blocked a minimum wage hike on the grounds that it would make the city “uncompetitive.” Mayor Catherine Pugh has bought into the imperial doctrine that poverty is an advantage in the marketplace. Pugh’s veto…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
50 Years Later, We Must Again Confront and Reject U.S. Warmongering
05 Apr 2017
by Ajamu Baraka More than ever, Black America needs a peace movement to confront militarism and the global structures of white supremacy. “We are calling for a new alliance to help revive the black anti-war and peace movement in the black community as an essential component of a revived broader…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Act Like Republicans
05 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Black politics in Baltimore has sunk to the very bottom of the sewer, with mayor Catherine Pugh’s veto of a rise in the minimum wage. “Black people have no reason to rejoice with the Pughs of the world in office, because they are just as eager…
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Obama White House Committed Impeachable Offenses by Encouraging Leaks Against Trump and Russia
05 Apr 2017
The Ford Report on the Real News Network Glen Ford on The Real News Network In its last months in office, the Obama administration facilitated massive leaks of Trump team members’ telephone conversations and other raw intelligence. The operation succeeded in creating great clouds of innuendo…