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Jared Ball
Israel's Apartheid
10 Mar 2010
by Murray Dobbin The world headquarters of the apartheid system is Tel Aviv. “Many experts on how the apartheid system was run claim that Israel's system of hafrada, or separation, is far more brutal and deliberately humiliating than anything devised by the racist regimes of Pretoria.”
Charo R. Walker
Defending Haiti
10 Mar 2010
by Charo R. Walker The entire African diaspora owes Haiti much more than simple gratitude for establishing the model of Black resistance to slavery and dehumanization – it owes Haiti a vigorous defense against its oppressors. “We need to let the Haitian people re-gain control, be owners of their…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Right, the Left and the Ugly: Fear and Loathing in White America
10 Mar 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Ron Paul’s anti-war stance has some progressives thinking that there’s a large pool of accessible anti-war sentiment on the Right. “But, is it really the socially tolerant ‘Left’s’ fault that these people don’t show up at anti-war events?” Or do their prejudices…
Jorge Mariscal
Post-Racial Higher Education in the Golden State
17 Mar 2010
by Jorge Mariscal Only a little of over one percent of the student body at the University of California at San Diego is Black – an ink spot in a sea of increasingly hostile whiteness. While students of color labor mightily to make the university livable and workable for a 21st century America,…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Israel Is Boss
17 Mar 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Corporate media pretend U.S.-Israeli relations are in “crisis,” just as they have many times in the past. It’s all a charade, a play for national and international audiences. In real crises, relationships are called into question. But there has…
Ishmael Reed
The NAACP House of Shame: Precious and the Big Payback
10 Mar 2010
by Ishmael Reed There is no Black image so foul that the NAACP will not embrace it – for a price. Tyler Perry's money bought much love for “Precious,” the “abhorent,” “repugnant” film. “The NAACP has given the segregated Motion Picture Academy an excuse to perpetrate a cruel joke on the black…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Tea Partyers Are White Nationalists, Pure and Simple
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. The Tea Party crowd is as old as notions of American Manifest Destiny. They are White Nationalists, who yearn for “a time…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Would Have Been Jailed Under Patriot Act
17 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. “When it comes to civil and political liberties, the U.S. is a far less free place than it was, a generation ago.” Citizens…
Jared Ball
The Titans of Technology: The Internet, Radio and Our Newton’s Laws
24 Feb 2010
by BAR columnist Jared Ball Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. We are constantly told that media fairness and effective access is always just over the horizon, awaiting the maturation of new…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Another Corporate Bailout: Obama Goes Nuclear
24 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. The Obama administration is preparing another huge corporate giveaway – this time to an industry that has been moribund for…