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  • MJ/Kelly, Wynton/West: Tour Guides of the House of Peter Pan
    Earl Hazell
    MJ/Kelly, Wynton/West: Tour Guides of the House of Peter Pan
    22 May 2019
    An opera singer and artistic director sees the Black male genius as a window to America’s dark side. 
  • Letters from Our Readers 
    Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
    Letters from Our Readers 
    22 May 2019
    This week the most talked about topic was war.  Readers wrote in about “
  • Socialism – The Litmus Test for Authentic African Leadership
    Mark P. Fancher
    Socialism – The Litmus Test for Authentic African Leadership
    22 May 2019
    There is no better time than African Liberation Day to call out Africa’s imperialist stooges, lackeys and puppets.
  • How Poverty is Reshaping the Story of Emmett Till’s Murder
    Dave Tell 
    How Poverty is Reshaping the Story of Emmett Till’s Murder
    22 May 2019
    Scholars continue to debate what, exactly, happened to Emmett Till, but a poor Black town is betting its future on one version of the story.
  • Los Angeles: City of Segregation
    Adam Tomes
    Los Angeles: City of Segregation
    22 May 2019
    Only white Americans have the freedom to use their wealth to buy a home wherever they like, and they use that freedom to isolate themselves from others.
  • Black Agenda Radio, Week of May 22, 2019
    Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio, Week of May 22, 2019
    22 May 2019
    Diop Olugbula: “Lethal force” deployed by parasitic merchants in Philly; Stephanie Reist: On finding Marielle Franco’s killers; Jaime Amparo Alves: Bra
  • Brazil is a Killing Field for Young Black Men
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Brazil is a Killing Field for Young Black Men
    20 May 2019
    “The police kill at least 14 young Black men in Brazil every single day,” said Prof. Jaime Amparo Alves, a member of the Brazilian Black Movement who teaches anthropology at t
  • Political Mafia Suspected in Marielle Franco Murder
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Political Mafia Suspected in Marielle Franco Murder
    20 May 2019
    Only two people have been arrested in the March, 2018 assassination of Marielle Franco, the Black activist and city councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Killer Security Guards Get Impunity
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Killer Security Guards Get Impunity
    20 May 2019
    On May 31 Philadelphia activists will march on a “My Philly Wireless” outlet where a private security guard fatally shot Willie Oliver Wise, an unarmed part-time employee who said the store ow
  • The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
    Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
    The U.S. Has Been Eclipsed in Every Sphere But War
    16 May 2019
    US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war
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