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  • education is a right
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Germany Just Made College Tuition Free? Why Won't Our Black Political Class Fight For Free Tuition Here?
    09 Oct 2014
    Germany just made college tuition free for everybody including foreign students! Free tuition here would cost about $62 billion, roughly what the US govt already spends on loans, grants and…
  • The Black Caucus “Left” Wing Crumbles Before Obama’s War Machine
    24 Sep 2014
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford It took just three years for most Americans to conclude that George Bush’s war in Iraq should come to an end. But, after three years of failure in Syria,…
  • Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    The Black Political Class? The Congressional Black Caucus? These Joes Ain't Loyal
    17 Sep 2014
    by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus endorse Israeli apartheid? Why do our black mayors embrace gentrification, our civil rights organizations side with their…
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    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    Black Folks are Going Nowhere Until We Discard the Misleadership Class
    28 Aug 2014
    by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement in Ferguson has, once again, showed that the Black Misleadership Class acts as the “soft power” for the Mass Black Incarceration State, complimenting…
  • What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
    Zeynep Tufekci
    What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
    26 Aug 2014
    This timely article explains how Twitter assisted the public in knowing about Ferguson, and essentially forced corporate media to cover it, while Facebook did the opposite.
  • “Civil Rights” Leaders, Politic365 bloggers, CBC Members Get Paid, the Public Gets Played on Network Neutrality.
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    “Civil Rights” Leaders, Politic365 bloggers, CBC Members Get Paid, the Public Gets Played on Network Neutrality.
    26 Aug 2014
    Is there any part of the black political class that isn't for sale, or hasn't been already been leased by Comcast, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T or Time-Warner?
  • Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Cowardly, Hypocritical, Subservient Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza
    31 Jul 2014
    by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Only 2 of over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members voted against legitimizing the 2009 Israeli massacre of 1400 mostly civilians in Gaza, with seven CBC…
  • last refuge for scoundrels
    Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
    Ta-Nehisi Coates, Blackwashing, the Reparations Brand, and a Last Refuge For Scoundrels
    18 Jun 2014
    No sensible person should doubt the fundamental justice of arguments for reparations for the historic crimes of slavery, Jim Crow, and today's prison state. Accomplishing reparations would require a…
  • Pascal Robert
    Thanks to the Congressional Black Caucus “Remy” from “House of Cards” is Real
    04 Jun 2014
    by Pascal Robert The truth is more evil than Netflix fiction. Staffers at the Congressional Black Caucus – doubtless mimicking the morals of their elected bosses – eventually formed their own…
  • Hubert Harrison
    Jeffrey B. Perry
    Happy 131st Birthday Hubert Harrison, Giant of Black History
    29 Apr 2014
    by Jeffrey B. Perry More race conscious than A. Philip Randolph and more class conscious than Marcus Garvey, Hubert H. Harrison’s “ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy…
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