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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition Holds March 26 Conference on the “Other” U.S. Wars
09 Mar 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bulk of U.S. and European anti-war movements have never opposed all imperial domination of other peoples, and have therefore been selective about which conflicts would be recognized as actual “wars,” that should be protested. Thus, U.S. armed theft of…
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
BA Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, Week of March 8, 2011
08 Mar 2011
U.S. Has no “Moral Authority” to Take Khadafi to Criminal Court The United States “doesn’t have a shred of moral authority” to take Libyan leader Khadafi before the International Criminal Court, says Michael Rattner, executive director of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. “…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Throwaway Children
26 Jan 2011
by Sikivu Hutchinson A gun goes off in a Los Angeles public school, and children are wounded. Mass gun violence by students is an overwhelmingly white affair in the U.S., but “any time violence erupts in a black or Latino context it’s a racial indictment, an indictment of a community, not a…
Bill Quigley
American Terror
12 Oct 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson It is not enough to preach mere “tolerance” of those who do not conform to gender norms. “Gay identities have moral value both as part of the range of sexual identity and in their difference from the compulsory heterosexual norm.” And, as is usual in a racist society, the…
Bill Quigley
Not Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Black Atheists, Urban America
15 Jun 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson Enormous pressures push African Americans to embrace a Black “hyper-religiosity” – or, at least, to profess to it – despite the fact that “the proliferation of storefront churches in urban black communities is a symptom of economic underdevelopment.” However, “a growing…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The Media and the Murder of Aiyanna Jones
27 May 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson During the same week that CNN aired a program on children’s perception of the race and social values, the Detroit police provided their own lesson on the subject, callously killing a 7 year-old Black girl. Any kid might conclude that Aiyanna Jones was not a valuable person…
Bill Quigley
The GOP’s Rebel Yell
14 Apr 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Tea Partyers are set to refloat the old 1994 “Contract with America” as part of their general right wing offensive. The New Confederates vow to wage decisive war against the Obama administration’s imaginary “socialism.” So far, the Right’s “junkyard thuggery” seems to be…
Sikivu Hutchinson
Mob Rules: Tea Party’s High Noon
31 Mar 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The unfortunately undead lurch out of America’s racial horror houses to reclaim the land for the White Man. Corporate media and the GOP confer respectability to the Old Confederacy’s second coming (did it ever leave?). “The freshly evangelized macho racist right has ensured…
Sikivu Hutchinson
International Women’s Day: Iran and The Global Struggle for Women’s Liberation
17 Mar 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson The western model, or perception, of feminism has limited utility to women living under Muslim fundamentalist rule in nations in conflict with U.S. imperialism. Some women so situated find direct connections with women of color who are exploited in multiple ways in the West…
Bill Quigley
Mainstream Media’s Tea Party Tryst
03 Feb 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson White nationalism is the permanent American “populist” movement, one that never truly goes away. “Thinly disguised as saber rattling against big government, race-baiting propaganda has been revitalized as the Republican strategy for taking back the country.”