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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Rev. Edward Pinkney: The Preacher Who Dared to Invoke God
22 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. The first man in modern day America to be imprisoned for “predicting what God might do” was released,…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Another Obama Promise Broken -- The Right To Organize Betrayed
22 Jul 2009
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. The Employee Free Choice Act has been gutted and may expire entirely, a victim of Barack Obama's…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Bush and Obama: Different Styles of Coup-Making
22 Jul 2009
Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. Although nobody but Americans believes Washington was not behind the late June coup in Honduras, Barack…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Dr. Wertham was right
21 Jul 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez If life imitates art, political life in the USA mimics comic books. “Gotham City looked to the Grim Avenger and Boy Wonder Robin, the United States looks to the Grinning Pretender and Joe, the Wonder-Boy.” Like in the comic books, the bad guys and the less bad…
Bill Quigley
Not What Obama Promised
21 Jul 2009
by David Swanson The most telling indictments of Barack Obama's presidency will come from those that initially supported him. Obama got activist/journalist David Swanson's vote last November. Now, after six months in the White House, Swanson has compiled a damning bill of particulars on Obama's…
Bill Quigley
Same Sex Marriage, Religiosity and Black Civil Rights Orthodoxies
21 Jul 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which once fearlessly confronted apartheid America, today threatens to excommunicate a Los Angeles minister for acting in solidarity with gays. “It is abundantly clear that when it comes to gay rights, bucking the black religious…
Bill Quigley
“My Hell in an Israeli Jail”: Israel Prison Population 90 Percent Black Africans
21 Jul 2009
by Voice Online, UK It should come as no surprise that a settler state based on the rule of one ethnic group would be steeped in racist public policies. But the sheer scope of Israel's institutional oppression of Africans shocked human rights activists imprisoned for attempting to deliver…
Bill Quigley
Licensed to Kill
21 Jul 2009
by John Maxwell It wasn't exactly a secret that the Bush administration had gone over to the “dark side” in the wake of 9/11, compiling hit lists of prospective victims. George Bush and Dick Cheney fairly broadcast that a U.S. Murder Inc was on the loose, seeking vengeance. “We know that the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Lies on Two Continents, is Denounced in New York
22 Jul 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama may be the most effective propagandist for U.S. imperialism in a very long time. But his narrative to Africans is built on blatant falsehoods, and his spiel to Black America is fundamentally dishonest and evasive. Demonstrators in Manhattan declared: “…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
The Peculiar Class Solidarity of Barack Obama and “Skip” Gates
28 Jul 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Sean Bell and Oscar Grant were shot down like dogs, but that was none of Barack Obama's concern. But when a local cop racially profiled Dr. Henry Louis Gates as if he were just another Black man, Obama's world shook. “To be subsumed within the Black mass means…