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.
A Li'l Somethin' for Dick Gregory by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Our white-bearded cannon fell silent—
The Missing Black History At Some Civil War Memorials A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Trump, Joe Arpaio and the Black Codes by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Freedom Rider: Joe Arpaio Is No Aberration by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Danny Haiphong Boston Protest of White Supremacy and Fascism Reveal Deep Contradictions of the Trump Era
