Glen Ford

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
No More American Thanksgivings
24 Nov 2015
by Glen Ford “The core ideological content of the holiday serves to validate all that has since occurred on these shores – a national consecration of the unspeakable, a balm and benediction for the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Black Lives Matter” Groups Hoping for a Big Payday
19 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford This week, the billionaires that fund the Democratic Party and its satellite organizations will decide which of the “Black Lives Matter” groups will get paid to lead…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
This Ain’t Your Grandfather’s Civil Rights Movement
12 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Shaun King and others like to compare today’s incipient movement to the civil rights era. But that’s a mistake. Today’s youth confront “a profoundly post-civil…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Corporate Media is Never Your Friend
11 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After bringing the University of Missouri to its knees, Black students wanted some privacy in a “black space,” away from the peering eyes and suspect motives of the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Demand Nothing, Get Nothing: The Movement Needs to Say What It Wants
05 Nov 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The movement that emerged in Ferguson must define itself through the demands it makes of Power – “a truth that appears to have been widely forgotten in the…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Garza vs. McKesson: The Great Debate Over How the Democratic Party Will Liberate Black People
30 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One side wants the Democrats to sponsor a town hall meeting on racial justice, the other prefers that the Party hold a Black issues oriented debate. Both #…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016
22 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
#BlackLivesMatter: Chat Partners with Hillary
14 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #BlackLivesMatter organization is now part of the 2016 Democratic Party election machinery, assuming its role as a power broker on behalf of Black people. It’s a…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Obama’s Justice: Holder Fought Prisoner Release, Lynch Backtracks on Killer Cops
07 Oct 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder are given false credit for the pending release of 6,000 drug offenders, when in fact “the administration has…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Blacks Cheer Venezuelan Leader – But Still Support Democratic Party Terror
30 Sep 2015
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Carrying on a tradition begun by Fidel Castro in 1960, Venezuelan leader Maduro came to Harlem, this week, for the opening of the UN General Assembly. When he spoke…