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.
An embarrassed and shamed Institute reinstates award “in keeping with its commitment to learning from its mistakes.”
Much of the money sent to help Haiti ended up being spent on western citizens at the expense of Haitian suffering.
The LA teachers strike was a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people.
Brown body writhing in orange flames; scents of burning hair and flesh—so, how do you say Lynching in Spanish? Torched clinics were hollowed out shells without medicines and
MLK Fought for Workers’ Rights
