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by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Operation
05 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner in which our poet compares the connection between needed undertakings on the part of each according to her ability unto each according to her need to some other undertakings bearing the same name....
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
MLK and Obama: Two Diametrically Opposed Legacies
05 Apr 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Dr. King spoke of the Triple Evils: racism, militarism and materialism – “meaning, in contemporary society, capitalism.” However, “the decisive blow to the Black movement for self-determination and against U.S. imperialism was delivered by forces internal to the…
History: How African Muslims “Civilized Spain”
12 Apr 2017
by Garikai Chengu For most of human history, northern Europe was a barbarian realm, to which it reverted with the fall of Rome. Muslim Moors from Africa civilized Spain. “In the 10th century, Cordoba was not just the capital of Moorish Spain but also the most important and modern city in Europe.”…
Capitalism, Racism and the History of South Africa
12 Apr 2017
by Sehlare Makgetlaneng The African National Congress has failed to nationalize industries, redistribute the land, or tackle other goals of the Freedom Charter. Instead, it deliberately created a Black capitalist class, through the government’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy. But Black…
Remembering South African Struggle Hero Chris Hani: Lessons for Today
12 Apr 2017
by Arianna Lissoni South African communist leader Chris Hani was assassinated by white racists 27 years ago, removing him from the scene during the nation’s transition to Black rule. Hani fought careerism and corruption in the revolutionary movement. Today, the “tradition of internal debate” that…
Deportation of African and Other Black Immigrants Is Quietly Increasing And No One Is Taking Note
12 Apr 2017
by David Love “Fully one-third of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers are African” – the fastest growing immigrant group -- and deportations of Black immigrants are expected to soar under Trump. The White House has placed bans on three countries -- Somalia, Libya and Sudan -- that account for…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
The Community Had a Duty to Shut Down the Montgomery County Hearing on the Bethesda African Burial Ground
12 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo Black community members attempting to preserve an ancestral burial ground charge they were “deceived, misled and ambushed” by officials in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. The Bethesda African Cemetery was already buried under a parking lot. Now…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Anti-Russia Madness Attempts to Suppress the Bi-Partisan Triple Evils of Capitalism, Racism, and War
12 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong Washington’s “anti-Russia madness” has distracted attention from every other issue, including what Dr. Martin Luther King called “the triple evils” of war, capitalism, and white supremacy. As Trump surrenders to the “Deep State,” working class and poor folks sink deeper into…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Trump Joins Democrats in the War Party
12 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Trump who upset the War Party with his stated opposition to regime change and willingness to lessen tensions with Russia has combusted in orange fireballs of war. In the wake of the attack on Syria, Bernie Sanders “proves himself to be a…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
God Squares Off with the Devil in Syria and Rwanda
12 Apr 2017
by Ann Garrison The propagandists of imperial war come in many packages, trailing the slime of mass death behind them. The Canadian ex-general Romeo Dallaire proudly bears the “white man’s burden” to punish Rwandans who were on the wrong (not the U.S.) side in their country’s civil war. He cites…