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Jordan Flaherty
Treme Rewrites Post-Katrina History. And That’s a Good Thing.
11 Feb 2014
by Jordan Flaherty The HBO show Treme has joined the television ancestors. History will decide the series’ ultimate significance – a verdict that cannot be left to the ratings, which are incapable of gauging shows about “race and racism, about Black culture in our cities, and the displacement…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin: On the 2/4 Dance…
18 Feb 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Ebry 2-4 yrs Negroz gettin’ played fo’ de fool
Kevin Cooper
Letter from San Quentin Death Row: Fighting The Oppressor
18 Feb 2014
by Kevin Cooper Hunger strikes and other acts of rebellion convey images of prison as a place of defiance. But a large proportion of the inmate population “refuse to even raise an ink pen to write about the oppressor and this oppressive system of death that has us all imprisoned, and is trying to…
Netfa Freeman
Thinking for Ourselves About Venezuela
18 Feb 2014
by Netfa Freeman The U.S. thinks it has found a formula for regime change, beginning with destabilization from within. Venezuela’s democratically elected government has long been a target. “Over the last decade or so we have seen this strategy attempted in Zimbabwe, Libya, Iran, and Syria.”
Mark P. Fancher
The Field Negroes’ Agenda: Reclamation, Reparations and Repatriation
18 Feb 2014
by Mark P. Fancher The author believes African liberation and the fall of U.S. imperialism can be achieved by triumph of the “Three R’s”: Reclamation, Reparations and Repatriation. In terms of day to day struggle, that translates as “pressuring the U.S. military out of Africa, assisting on the…
Jay Arena
Justice in New Orleans?: The Real Crimes of Former Mayor Ray Nagin and the Entire Ruling Class
19 Feb 2014
by Jay Arena Ray Nagin, who first ran for mayor as the candidate of business, cops and whites, was only convicted of “the least of his crimes.” The corporate-run, bipartisan gang that pillaged New Orleans ranged from President Obama to Governor Jindal to Melissa Harris Perry, and every high-living…
Wilmer J. Leon III
Jordan Davis, another Victim of a Murderous Historical Continuum
19 Feb 2014
by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III The latest failure to fully convict the perpetrator of a racial killing is yet further evidence that white American civilization is not yet compatible with the rule of law. “In both the Trayvon Martin murder and the murder of Jordan Davis, both victims were in public…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: White Men and Guns
19 Feb 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley American white men seem afflicted with a peculiar disorder – a lethal irritability that causes them to kill young Black people at the slightest, imagined provocation. It is an historically-based syndrome that claims victims with a regularity…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Federal Prosecutors Declare Mass Incarceration is Fine Will Continue; Obama & Holder Pretend Not to Notice
20 Feb 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon While the Attorney General grants interviews promising significant action on mass incarceration, federal prosecutors openly declare that there's nothing wrong with mass incarceration or the prison state. The Obama administration does nothing, and why should it…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Detroit’s Agony Shows Why Black America Needs A People’s Plan for the Cities
20 Feb 2014
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Detroit, the Black Metropolis, is being disassembled. Having stolen local democracy, corporate planners now trip over themselves to create the grid for a new city, in which current residents will live in the shadows. Corporate disinvestment created urban Black…