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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Identity Politics and Elite Capture
20 May 2020
The trouble is that identity politics is the victim of elite capture in the service of their own interests.
Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself.
Russell Rickford
Black Politics, Class Struggle and the Illusion of Centrism
25 Mar 2020
Black Democratic Party operatives seek to camouflage class antagonisms among African Americans and to equate racial progress with the feeble policies of “diversity and inclusion.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
As Biden Racks up Delegates the Crisis Among Black Folks and Democrat Party Deepens
12 Mar 2020
Slick operatives among the Black Misleadership Class have made an electoral pact with big capitalists that is totally against the interests of the Black working class.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg
29 Jan 2020
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
count ALL votes
27 Nov 2019
POW…POW…POW…POW… My leaders were voted out of office with hot lead ballots: red runoffs in driveways, beds, ballroom floors, on balconies,
by Louis Jefferson
Anthem 4 Rappers Wrapped in The Flag
04 Sep 2019
Oh Jay Can U C By the dawn of Imperialist greed They will eat u 2 After they fatten u up to deceive U took the bait So they call u great
Anonymous
The Black Misleadership Class Shuffles Along and Rides Again
04 Sep 2019
The president of predominantly Black Hampton University debased himself by speaking at Liberty University, founded by the Christian racist Jerry Falwell.
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Jay-Z” Did Not Sell Out, He Bought In
21 Aug 2019
Like the scorpion in the folk parable, it’s in Jay-Z’s nature to make a killing – at Kaepernick and the community’s expense.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Trump and Baltimore
31 Jul 2019
Anyone feeling the need to defend Baltimore from Trump’s opinions ought to talk about what really ails that city.