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I Feel Blessed to Have Encountered Darcus Howe
26 Apr 2017
by Norman (Otis) Richmond aka Jalali Darcus Howe, the Trinidad-born nephew of C.L.R. James, touched many lives. A member of the British Black Panthers and an organizer of street protests in London, Howe became a noted broadcaster and writer. The author first met Howe in New York in that crucial…
From Colonialism to Trumpism: Remembering Aimé Césaire
26 Apr 2017
by Abraham Ramirez Americans and Europeans speak of the drift towards fascism, as if the empires they have built on the tombs of the non-white peoples were not the incubators of Hitlers -- and incarcerationist Clintons, bombing Obamas and Trumps. “They tolerated Nazism before it was inflicted on…
Thomas C. Mountain
Africa’s War Lord Queen; The Bloodstained Career of Liberia’s Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson
26 Apr 2017
by Thomas C. Mountain If all you know about Liberian President Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson is what you read in the U.S. corporate media, you probably think she is a Nobel Prize-winning reformer. In fact, Sirleaf is a U.S. imperial puppet whose hands are steeped in blood, the “right hand woman“ of…
A New Agenda in Jackson, Mississippi
26 Apr 2017
by Sarah Jaffe Chokwe Antar Lumumba wants to finish the work his father began as mayor of Mississippi’s capital city. “No longer should we just buy someone’s agenda, listen to how they are going to do all these great things for us, only to find ourselves disappointed in the end result,” says…
Bill Quigley
Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
26 Apr 2017
by Bill Quigley Former Obama education chief Arne Duncan declared that Katrina was the best thing that ever happened to New Orleans schools, which switched to a nearly all-charter system. But, Black students, parents and teachers told an entirely different story to an NAACP hearing. Charterization…
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
The Massacre of Hutu Refugees in Rwanda: An Interview with Rene Mugenzi
26 Apr 2017
by Ann Garrison Thanks to lies told by U.S. presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, much of the world believes only Tutsis died in the Rwandan genocide. No one has been prosecuted for “the systematic massacre of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus.” Instead, the West lavishes praise, weapons and…
Cornel West
The Democrats Delivered One Thing in the Past 100 Days: Disappointment
26 Apr 2017
by Cornel West The nation’s best known Black public intellectual says it’s past time to dump the Democrats and build a real opposition to Trump. A new party is needed. “If a class-conscious multi-racial party attuned to anti-sexist, anti-homophobic and anti-militaristic issues and grounded in…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Purity Over Principle: The Left's State of Purgatory
26 Apr 2017
by Danny Haiphong It is difficult to speak of a “left” in the U.S., given the inability of people who call themselves leftists “to lend critical support to oppressed nations under siege” – the sacred duty of any genuine Left. Instead, pseudo-leftists join in dehumanizing the victims of U.S.…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Do Americans Have No Shame?
26 Apr 2017
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Putting aside the lack of any proof of Russian interference in U.S. elections, Americans have some nerve complaining about outside meddling when they have violated the sovereign rights of much of the planet. Americans owe the world heartfelt…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama’s New Job: Guardian of Official Lies
27 Apr 2017
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Having spent eight years telling lies about who the U.S. was fighting in its so-called “War on Terror” (secular governments) and who it was allied with (jihadists), ex-president Obama must now ensure that these lies become part of the “common base line of facts”…