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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…
The Real News Network
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…
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…