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  • The Black Panthers Didn’t Fight Symbols
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    The Black Panthers Didn’t Fight Symbols
    13 Sep 2017
    “Johnny Reb’s footprint on the landscape is tiny compared to the 5,000 state and federal prisons and jails that crater the nation.”
  • Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism
    13 Sep 2017
    Freedom Rider: Hurricanes and Capitalism “No one can expect a helping hand unless they are already among the haves.”
  • Mercury in Retrograde: Las Vegas Cops Assault NFL Star Michael Bennett
    Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
    Mercury in Retrograde: Las Vegas Cops Assault NFL Star Michael Bennett
    13 Sep 2017
    Mercury in Retrograde: Las Vegas Cops Assault NFL Star Michael Bennett
  • How Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party
    Manmeet Sahni
    How Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party
    13 Sep 2017
    How Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party “By the early 1970s, women formed nearly two-thirds of the Black Panther Party.”
  • Swipe It Forward
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    “Swiping It Forward” in the NYC Subways
    12 Sep 2017
    The Coalition to End Broken Windows Policing has been descending into the New York City subway system, urging folks with unlimited fare cards to swipe entrance for young and poor riders, so they wo
  • because russia
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Blaming Russia for America’s Racist Crimes
    07 Sep 2017
    “The Times reporters could not find anyone to add substance to the impression the story was designed to make: that the Russians had something to do with voting disruptions in North Caro
  • Curtis Black
    Behind Fascist Balbo Monument, a History of Multiracial Resistance
    06 Sep 2017
    “Italian Americans and African Americans drew explicit connections between fascist ideology and the racist and repressive system existing here.”
  • Voices of Prison Abolition
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford , Max Parthus , Laura Whitehorn
    Voices for Prison Abolition
    06 Sep 2017
    Activists seeking to abolish the US mass incarceration system, root and branch, rallied in 16 cities under the banner “Millions for Prisoners Human Rights.” Speakers included Laura Whitehor
  • Bad News Trump
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford , Wilbert "Jazz the Poet" Sanders
    Bad News Trump
    06 Sep 2017
    Wilbert “Jazz the Poet” Sanders, currently incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s McKean federal prison, showcased a new work, titled “Politically Incorrect,” via Prison Radio: “Trump is v
  • Trump, Joe Arpaio and the Black Code
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Trump, Joe Arpaio and the Black Codes
    31 Aug 2017
    Trump, Joe Arpaio and the Black Codes by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
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