Black Misleadership Class

Dr. Matthew Quest
What E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie Says To Us 60 Years Later, Part 2
15 Nov 2017
“...the Black struggle for status and recognition on capitalist terms will produce more absurdity, brutality, and deformities...”
Dr. Matthew Quest
The Pioneering Critique of the Black Misleadership Class: E. Franklin Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoisie
09 Nov 2017
Published 60 years ago, Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoisie (1957) analyzed the social and political behavior of the African American middle class social strata that aspired to purpor
Briahna Joy Gray
How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left
30 Aug 2017
“Responses to skepticism about Harris have simply dismissed the substance of the analysis, instead suggesting a “targeting” of Harris because of her gender and/or race.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Root and Russophobia
16 Aug 2017
Freedom Rider: The Root and Russophobia by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Indecency of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Aug 2017
If Congresswoman Barbara Lee is among the best that the Black political class has to offer -- which she is -- then that class is “wholly unfit to guide the politics of 40 million people.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Barbara Lee and Tulsi Gabbard Side with War Party on Sanctions
09 Aug 2017
The Democrats’ two leading congressional dissidents have finally surrendered, now that the party has “taken the lead in the project of endless war.” U.S.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama Chugs Flint Water, Dodges Federal Responsibility, Delivers Another Cynical Lecture to Black Folks
12 May 2016
"the president cynically leveraged his blackness to obscure the fact that he was refusing to go after the guilty parties, while proposing no measures to ensure it didn't happen again."
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Oprah and Sharpton Attack Black Lives Matter Movement
05 Feb 2015
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Are Black "Success Stories" Really Holding Us Back?
17 Apr 2014
Is it time to critically interrogate the black “success stories” of pro atheletes and near-billionaires? Should we be identifying with the Junior Bridgemans and Magic Johnsons or with their thousands…