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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Whose Black President?
03 Aug 2011
by Paul Street In retrospect, we should have seen it all coming: the Black corporate politician wreaking havoc on the progressive legacy through a working alliance with the GOP. In fact, some of us did see it coming, including the author, who had Obama’s number, early on. “The deeply…
Thomas C. Mountain
World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death?
03 Aug 2011
by Thomas Mountain To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Ruin-Nation: The Obama Catastrophe
03 Aug 2011
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two and a half years of waging war against the Left half of his own party, while seeking a “Grand Consensus” with the GOP, President Obama has finally set “in motion a rolling implosion of Roosevelt’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Society.” The final vote…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Justice Department is Hiding Something on Malcolm X Murder
03 Aug 2011
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Forty-six years after the assassination of Malcolm X, a large segment of Black America believes the FBI played a part in the Black leader’s death. But the first Black U.S. attorney general refuses to reopen the case, and the FBI has claimed for 30…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ruling Class Victory
03 Aug 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Left to their own devices, the Tea Party and the rest of the Republicans could not possibly have done such damage to the legacies of the New Deal and Great Society as was wrought, this week. The Black Democrat in the White House tipped the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Six More Years of Obama
10 Aug 2011
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley It seems only a Republican president can free us from the downward Obama spiral of the Democratic Party. “When the ruling class who hire and fire politicians chose a black Democrat to serve as president, they pulled off what can only be…
Jordan Flaherty
From Heroes to Villains: NOPD Verdict Reveals Post-Katrina History
10 Aug 2011
by Jordan Flaherty Guilty verdicts against New Orleans cops in the infamous Danziger Bridge murders of innocent Black citizens may lead to far reaching changes in law enforcement – and not just in New Orleans. “The Justice Department is looking at federal oversight of the NOPD, a process by…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Slipping: Black America Waking Up - To the Nightmare
10 Dec 2010
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “A consciously Black opposition to the First Black President, on issues of peace and economic justice, is taking shape.” Some of the players “on tour”: Cynthia McKinney’s “Eyewitness Libya” tour; Tavis Smiley and Cornel West’s “Poverty Tour”; and Congressional…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: An Island of Food in Africa’s Horn of Hunger
10 Aug 2011
by Thomas C. Mountain Drought kills, but spiraling food prices can also bring hunger. While Ethiopia exported food for cash as drought and famine loomed, Eritrea is like “an island the size of Britain where affordable bread is there for all and slowly but steadily, life gets better.” Meanwhile…
Lee A. Daniels
America’s Mass Incarceration Policy: Bad for Children
17 Dec 2010
by Lee A. Daniels The “New Jim Crow” that has thrown unprecedented numbers of Blacks behind bars and made crime and stigmatized an entire people, has also mangled the lives of Black children – whether a parent has been incarcerated or not. The generalized effects on Black kids include “…