by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Since the onset of the Obama phenomenon, Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth and death days have been “polluted” by false and ahistorical comparisons between Obama and MLK. The two men represent opposite political poles: one, a radical opponent of imperial war and concentrated economic power, the other, an ally of Wall Street and commander-in-chief of “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” In focusing on King, the man of peace, Tavis Smiley’s PBS special corrects a history that has been distorted, sometimes beyond recognition – not the least by the revisionist and poseur in the White House.
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others.
Democratic community control of the police transforms the power dynamic between police and citizens.
White supremacy is an incredibly insincere distraction that tries to erase the histories of White, Black, and Red peoples.
Moving between the Philippines, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, and the United States, the author portrays how workers are fighting back.
Trump is a racist and demagogic capitalist Chief of State, but the United States is not fascist – yet.
