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Nicaragua: Next in Line for Regime Change?
01 May 2018
“The right-wing Citizens for Liberty and Sandinista Renewal Movement political organizations have led the violent protests.”
Jessica Glenza
Flint Crisis, Four Years On: What Little Trust Is Left Continues to Wash Away
01 May 2018
“Flint is a place a city where many people are unlikely to ever drink another drop of tap water as long as they live.” LeeAnne Walters was one of the activists who brought Flint’s brown, lead-laden water to the world’s attention, thrusting plastic bottles of dingy liquid into camera lenses and the…
Evelyn M. Simien
A Powerful Memorial to the Men and Women Victims of Lynching Opens in Alabama
01 May 2018
“Close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South.” A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opened in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Cory Booker Blames Black America for Trump, But Only Has Himself to Blame
01 May 2018
“Democrats like Booker have blamed everyone but themselves for Trump’s victory.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Former Black Panther Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald Seeks Parole after 49 Years Behind Bars
01 May 2018
“People who were not members of the Black Panther Party or who were not political are released,” On April 26, former Black Panther Herman Bell was released from prison in New York State after 45 years. That leaves at least 10 surviving members of the Black Panther Party behind bars, including…
Black Alliance For Peace
Re-Centering Anti-War and Anti-Imperialism as Working-Class Issues on May 1st
02 May 2018
“We will never support U.S. imperialism in any of its adventures.” May 1stis recognized as International Workers’ Day throughout the world except in the most bourgeois of bourgeois nations -- the United States. Yet, even though the capitalist oligarchy has tried to erase the day from the awareness…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: How to Remember Lynching
02 May 2018
“Lynch law is still practiced today by police across the country.”
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
Blues For Boss Tweet (and $cammany Haul)
02 May 2018
Called it ‘Stormy Sunday—’ Monday was more Mad Called it ‘Stormy Sunday—’ Monday was more Mad Mass murder worldwide— Caracas to Baghdad… Missiles flew on Friday— Saturday he went out to putt Missiles flew on Friday— Saturday he went out to putt War House on Wednesday— Another 1% tax cut… Bombing…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bill Cosby Should Have Been Denounced by Black America Long Ago
02 May 2018
The following article was authored by Glen Ford when he was editor of The Black Commentator. Bill Cosby’s Confused Notions of ‘Responsibility’ The Black Commentator, June 3, 2004
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M.
There is a Structural Crisis of Capitalism
09 May 2018
“Capitalism has become an “obsolete social system.” A Marxist thinker of profound originality and theoretical innovation, Samir Amin continues to intellectually equip us to comprehend, analyse and critique the “obsolete” nature of present-day capitalism, the unequal North-South divide between…