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Kemet Mawakana
My Father Is Black Like God
11 Jun 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) This week the Seven Foot Poet reaches back to the zone of origins and ancestors to speak of his own father, and his father, and his before him.
Kemet Mawakana
I Hate Being Jackie Robinson
24 Jun 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) There is a special burden that goes with being "the first", or "the only", or "one of the few" black faces in a workplace, school or professional situation. Jackie Robinson was neither the first nor the last to bear this load…
Bill Quigley
Is Kucinich the "black candidate?"
20 Dec 2006
by Bruce Dixon If 2008 presidential candidate, Ohio's Dennis Kucinich were a member of the Congressional Black Caucus he would have scored 100% on the CBC Monitor's report card, while Barack Obama only scored 70%. If Kucinich stands where black voters do, and others don't, just who…
Bill Quigley
Will Supreme Court Ruling Help Mumia Abu-Jamal's Case?
10 Feb 2010
by Linn Washington Jr. Despite the High Court's recent decision, options remain for the defense of the former Black Panther Party member. A lower court must now “reexamine the issue of whether the judge at Abu-Jamal's 1982 trial provided faulty jury instructions regarding death penalty deliberation…
Bill Quigley
U.S. Coming Apart at the Seams
10 Feb 2010
by Cynthia McKinney The former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate was last weekend awarded the Munich American Peace Committee Peace Prize. “Those of us who have stepped outside of the ‘acceptable’ political paradigm,” she said, “must be willing to break bread with…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Amend the Constitution – and Whatever Else It Takes to Break Corporate Power
10 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. Legislation to begin the process of amending the U.S. Constitution, introduced by Black Congresspersons John Conyers and…
Jared Ball
The Shibboleth of "Black Buying Power”
10 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Dr. Jared Ball Click the player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. We've been hearing the same song for decades: “Black people's buying power is [x] billions of dollars. When will we harness our buying power?” But it's all a crock…
Arun Gupta
Under the Pretense of Haiti Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation
17 Feb 2010
by Arun Gupta The United States has seized on the Haitian earthquake crisis, not only to establish a full-blown military occupation but to vastly expand its neoliberal economic restructuring of the country. “It’s clear that the Shock Doctrine is alive and well in Haiti.”
Bill Quigley
U.S. Brags Haiti Response is a “Model” While More Than a Million Remain Homeless
17 Feb 2010
by Bill Quigley U.S. officials are full of themselves, hawking their military expeditionary mission to Haiti as the future of humanitarian crisis response. Meanwhile, Partners in Health director Dr. Louise Ivers reports “’there is more and more misery’ in Port au Prince as fears of typhoid and…
Bill Quigley
America After the Quiet Coup
17 Feb 2010
by Edward L. Palmer, Robert N. Rhodes and Alice J. Palmer “There has been a quiet coup in the US in which a financial oligarchy has gained hegemony over the government structure.” That seizure of power has resulted in devastation for Black America, where “48% of the children of middle class Black…