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 U.S. House has passed, and the Senate is considering, a bill designed to break the back of the Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement.
Blacks Should Not Become Uncle Sam’s Clean-Up Crew by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Freedom Rider: Kaepernick and True Protest by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Black Alliance for Peace Calls on the U.S. to End Its War in Afghanistan by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Charlottesville is America: The Myth of the White Supremacist Tidal Wave by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
