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Bill Quigley
America Is The Headache
07 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Thinking Post-Obama
06 Apr 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley History will record that “the benefits to black America from the Obama administration have been non-existent” – and, at some point, African Americans will also have to face the fact. “Never again should one candidate for office, even the…
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06 Apr 2011
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Is Marriage for White People?
14 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Do Black women and Black men have problems forging stable marriages in American society? Solution: Black women should seek partners outside the race, says the author of a new, “useless and perhaps dangerous” book. Author Ralph Richard…
Bill Quigley
A Pimp Named Patriot
15 Sep 2011
Alan Gilbert
Bigger and More Dangerous Than the New Jim Crow
14 Sep 2011
by Alan Gilbert The author reports that Michelle Alexander and her political blockbuster The New Jim Crow animated the annual gathering of the American Political Science Association. Some voices claimed that Alexander’s formulation is too narrow, while others are staggered by the sheer…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Lisa Jackson, Blow the Whistle on Obama!
14 Sep 2011
by BAR editor and columnist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo President Obama’s decision to abandon his Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Air regulations presents EPA chief Lisa Jackson with a stark choice: to swallow hard and keep her job or do the right thing by blowing the moral whistle…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Subverts Social Security
15 Sep 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Since January, 2009, Barack Obama has been Social Security’s relentless antagonist. He has succeeded in maneuvering the program into “the middle of the budget deficit debate, where it does not belong and from which it has been purposely shielded since its…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
CBC: Impotent, Irrelevant, and Tied to the President in 2012, Even If Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover
24 Aug 2011
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus, forty of the most senior members of the House of Representatives, pretend that touring the country with a phony, embarrassing “job fair” is a substitute for the massive jobs and poverty-reduction programs they should…
Jahi Issa
The Ethnic Cleansing of Historically Black Colleges & Universities in the Age of Obama, Part 1 of 3
07 Sep 2011
by Jahi Issa, Ph.D. Despite the long and loud verbal commitment of the Black Misleadership class to HBCUs, the deference and dependence of black leadership to corporate ethics and on corporate donations has caused them to endorse policies that are effectively phasing out HBCUs. Within a…