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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Solve Tomorrow’s Uvalde in nano seconds…
27 Jul 2022
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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
27 Jul 2022
The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Grandstanding: Mayoral Candidate Karen Bass Says She Can Solve LA’s Homelessness Crisis
27 Jul 2022
As the late Glen Ford said, the Black misleadership class has no shame. Congresswoman Karen Bass's campaign for mayor of Los Angeles is full of empty promises. She proposes nothing that would actually address the needs of that city's unhoused population.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Glen Ford: Clarence Thomas, the “Anti-Black,” 2007
27 Jul 2022
An essay by the late Glen Ford recounts the perverse origin story of the twisted life and lies of Clarence Thomas.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Glen Ford's Irreplaceable Journalism
27 Jul 2022
I was very proud to write the preface to Glen Ford's book, The Black Agenda, which was published posthumously by OR Books. As we approach the first anniversary of Glen's passing, I endeavored to explain why his journalism was truly irreplaceable.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Lies of Empire: Don’t Believe a Word They Say
27 Jul 2022
The U.S. reprises Iraq, inventing a WMD threat from Syria. The FBI concocts home-grown terror through stings, while the NSA claims it has secretly saved many lives. “Why this steady stream of government-invented terror, if the real thing is so abundant?” And, isn’t the U.S. arming and funding the…
Jacqueline Luqman
Biden Could Cancel Your Loan If He Wasn’t Busy Arming Cops and Ukraine
03 Aug 2022
As student loan payments are set to resume, Biden is instead dumping money on more killer cops and on the US's proxy war in Ukraine.
Benjamin Norton
Polls Show Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades of War Propaganda and Lies
03 Aug 2022
The CIA has long manipulated the media, spreading disinformation to justify US wars. Today just 11% of North Americans trust television news.
The Tricontinental
The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74 (Part 2)
03 Aug 2022
Liberation struggles are not fought only on the battlefield. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) left a legacy of educational decolonization. This article was originally published on The Tricontinental. This is the second part of the article. The first…
The Workers' Summit of the Americas
Final Declaration of the Workers’ Summit of the Americas
03 Aug 2022
This is the Final Declaration of the Workers’ Summit of the Americas which took place in Tijuana, Mexico, in opposition to the Biden administration’s failed summit in Los Angeles.