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.
The United States is a Racist Monument, Tear it Down!
Four months ago I sat in the apartment of a family of Palestinian refugees in Burj el Barajneh camp, just outside of Beirut.
How Women Were at the Helm of the Black Panther Party “By the early 1970s, women formed nearly two-thirds of the Black Panther Party.”
I grew up in Detroit in the 1960s and ’70s, which is to say, I grew up in a union town. My father, Charlie Ransby, did backbreaking work most of his life and was a lifelong union member.
Amidst imperialist interference, the people in Venezuela are carrying on the task of reorganizing their society.
