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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The U.S. Black Political Class and War
02 Feb 2022
What passes for leadership is always a joke played upon Black people. The high water mark of the CBC being the “conscience of the congress” is long gone. No one can look to them on the issue of…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Terri Sewell, the Worst of the Black Caucus, Subverts $15 Wage Bill
18 Apr 2019
Selma, Alabama, has produced the most reactionary Black Congressperson in modern times, part of the Democratic Party’s increasing servitude to corporate interests.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Black Political Class and Network Neutrality
21 Dec 2017
Earlier this month, Chicago journalist Curtis Black called the office of Congressman Bobby Rush (D- IL) to ask what the congressman’s position on net neutrality was, now that Donald Trump is presid
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks, War and the Phony “Resistance”
07 Dec 2017
“The Democrats are ‘all in’ for the Pentagon, including a majority of the Congressional Black Caucus.”
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Glen Ford: Backward Black Congresswoman Demands Facebook Censor the Left Because Russia?
06 Oct 2017
AARON MATÉ: It's The Real News. I'm Aaron Maté. Facebook is giving Congress the 3,000 ads it says were likely bought by Russian linked accounts to influence the 2016 election.
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
“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?
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Color Of Change Takes On Black Caucus on Internet Neutrality
22 Sep 2010
“Black watchdogs are most effective in unmasking and shaming the culprits within our own ranks.” We “tip our hats” to Color of Change for exposing the Congressional Black Caucus’s abysmal collectiv
Leutisha Stills , CBC Monitor
Obama Charges Rightward, Five CBCers Earn Bush Loyalty Points
25 Jun 2008
A hardcore handful of Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members who last week embraced George Bush's Iraq occupation policies, were joined by six others in support of a phony "compromise" over the a