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  • The Real News Network
    Will Hillary Clinton Do More For Black America Than Did Obama? Is That A Low Enough Bar?
    01 Dec 2015
    The Real News Network's Jared Ball interviews Glen Ford on Michael Eric Dyson's fulsome endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the New Republic.
  • Norman Richmond
    The Sports of Empire
    24 Nov 2015
    by Norman (Otis) Richmond Sports has traveled the world on the fortunes of empire – and the misfortunes of the conquered. “’Thanks’ to imperialism, Africans in the Western Hemisphere were…
  • Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
    The Paris Attacks and the White Lives Matter Movement
    18 Nov 2015
    by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka The white world views French victims of ISIS as more valuable – more human – than the thousands of Arabs, Kurds and Africans murdered in terror attacks, or…
  • Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Americans are Poor
    04 Nov 2015
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley If Americans understood how poor they actually are – on a par with Latvians and Romanians, according to newly released data – they would dump the…
  • Jeremy Malcolm
    The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
    03 Nov 2015
    By Jeremy Malcolm The TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership is a body of secret law so odious that the Obama administration seeks to enact it into law without its content made known to the public for 5…
  • Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
    The Bernie and Trump Trap: Beyond the Dead-End of Imperial Politics
    30 Sep 2015
    by Danny Haiphong “Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are here to rescue the system with a dose of fear and hope.” Trump’s open-air racism instills fear in racial minorities and people who consider…
  • Mark P. Fancher
    Powerless Whites Want “In” On Chitlin’ Politics
    30 Sep 2015
    by Mark P. Fancher Why not a Donald Trump run for the White House? With corporations firmly in control of U.S. society, presidents don’t matter much. In recent decades, the job has been “eagerly…
  • Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor
    Congressional Black Caucus Report Card for 2015, the 114th Congress
    24 Sep 2015
    by Glen Ford with Patrice Johnson for CBC Monitor It's been several years since the Black Agenda Report team issued what used to be our annual report card on the Congressional Black Caucus, the cream…
  • Paul Street
    What Color is Your T-Shirt? Race, Class, Empire, and White Democrats in a Liberal Campus Town
    23 Sep 2015
    by Paul Street Bernie Sanders is beloved among the “white middle class campus town progressive Democrats” in places like Iowa City, Iowa, who live quite different lives than the largely Sudanese and…
  • The Real News Network
    Cuba Frees 3,522 Prisoners Ahead of Papal Visit, Will America Follow Suit?
    16 Sep 2015
    by the Real news Network
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