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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Justice Department Joins the Sean Bell Murder Whitewash
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. In an age of pervasive racial profiling and militarized policing, impunity is the order of the day in local law…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Death at the Bridge in New Orleans
03 Mar 2010
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Click the flash player to listen to or the mic to download an audio in MP3 format. With the statue of limitations due to expire in six months, federal officials have extracted one guilty plea in a New Orleans police slaughter of Black Katrina survivors.…
The Editors
Insanity: Cuban Exile Proposes That U.S. Negotiate on Behalf of Cuban Blacks
25 Mar 2010
Cuban exile Carlos Moore has convinced a number of African American luminaries that the U.S. government should negotiate with Cuba over the status and treatment of the island nation's Black population, as part of talks to normalize relations between the two nations. It is, therefore, only fair that…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama: Inside Man for the Greatest Heist in History
25 Mar 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Black America and “progressives” lurched into self-imposed irrelevancy at precisely the time that finance capital was swallowing the American state whole. Barack Obama is the Great Facilitator of Wall Street's desperate effort to loot itself out of oblivion.…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Pornography of Suffering
25 Mar 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The American mentality seems hopelessly rooted in the gutter, keenly attuned to tales of rape and bestiality but supremely indifferent to the elementary facts of life and history. The current genocide in Congo is as little known as that country’…
The Editors
Ashaki Binta on Charges of Racism in Cuba
25 Mar 2010
The record of Cuba since that country's 1959 reolution on race and racism, both at home and on the world stage is one the US should envy, not deprecate, says Ashaki Binta of the Black Left Unity Coalition. It was Cuban intervention that played a major role in ending the apartheid regime in…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Amiri Baraka on Carlos Moore: Five Decades in the Garbage Can of History
25 Mar 2010
Poet, activist and esteemed elder Amiri Baraka was one of those who showed up in Harlem last month to greet a delegation of Cuban visitors. He took the occasion to express profound reservations about the letter and petition circulated by Carlos Moore and signed by a number of prominent…
Ayesha Fleary
Ayesha Fleary For Black Is Back Coalition: The President's Wars Are Not "Our" Wars
25 Mar 2010
Just because the president has a pretty brown face, a beautiful African American wife, and adorable black children doesn't make his wars the cause of Black America, Ayesha Fleary told attendees at an anti-war rally across the street from the White House last weekend. If you cannot see the video…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Obama Democrats VS Tea Party Republicans: A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform
25 Mar 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon There are real fights and there are fake fights, engineered to distract attention away from the real deal. The shouting match between Obama's Dems and the Tea party Repubs is one of those fake fights. The health care legislation passed by the Obama Democrats…
C. Uzondu
Presidential Violence!
31 Mar 2010
by C. Uzondu Few imagined how dangerous a “Black” U.S. presidency could be for Black interests and the prospects for world peace. Barack Obama’s “success” – as it will be judged by those powers with which he has aligned – requires that “we valorize capitalist imperialism, male supremacy, militarism…