Obama's Trayvon Speech: Massa Trying to Keep the Slaves on the Plantation by...
by Carl DixPresident Obama’s attempt to diffuse Black rage in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal is rooted in deception. “The fact is, Barack Obama has played a major role in the further...
View ArticleThe Obama Project and the Politics of Race
by Paul StreetThe president expended 2,600 words to create the illusion of deep personal identification with the contemporary African American condition. But, in fact, Obama “has been actively hostile...
View ArticleObama Supports the Racial Surveillance That Killed Trayvon
by BAR executive editor Glen FordIn his effort to “put the angry Black genie back in the bottle” following George Zimmerman’s acquittal, President Obama once again claimed to oppose racial profiling....
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Listen to Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network, with Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey – Week of 7/29/13 Trayvon Protests Should Lead to Movement Against Racial SurveillanceIf there is to be a...
View ArticleAmerica’s Disappeared
by Chris HedgesWhen three guys go missing in the ghetto, it’s an ordinary event. The criminal justice system is a body-snatcher. “In America, when you are poor, you can instantly disappear into the...
View ArticleThe Black Mis-Leaders' Love-Fest with Power on the Mall
by BAR executive editor Glen FordThe commemoration of the March on Washington has been ruined. President Obama, the global assassin, protector of Wall Street, and reigning Great Mass Incarcerator, will...
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Syria is Opportunity to Build a Real Peace Movement“They’ve handed this to us on a silver platter: an announced war,” said David Swanson, veteran peace activist and publisher of the influential web...
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Lynne Stewart Imprisonment Meant to “Chill” Defense LawyersNew Justice Department guidelines on compassionate release from prison should, by all rights, apply to people’s lawyer Lynne Stewart, serving...
View ArticleWhen Prisons Retaliate: California Inmates Still Paying Price for Demanding...
by Sarah Lazare California prison inmates have held three hunger strikes and mass work stoppages in the last two years, protesting appalling conditions and the torture of solitary confinement. The...
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A Black-Green Alliance in Libya?Reports of intense fighting in southern Libya against the NATO-installed regime indicate that “Green” supporters of the former Gaddafi government could form an alliance...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: State of the Union: Awful
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyDo not expect honesty, accuracy, or even a semblance of reality from U.S. presidents’ reports on the State of the Union. Better to call it the State...
View ArticleComing Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
by Colin JenkinsThe endemic violence of a society born of genocide, slavery, misogyny and ruthless capitalism is institutionalized in modern American structures. “The equipment and machinery regularly...
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Count-Down to a Class-Based InternetThe public has four months to respond to the Federal Communications Commission’s plans to end Internet neutrality. “The people are very clear about what they want,”...
View Article“The More Effective Evil” Curtain Call and the Prospect of Hilary 2016
by Danny HaiphongPresident Obama has proven far more effective than George Bush in consolidating the rule of corporate imperialism. It will soon become Hillary Clinton’s turn to neutralize Blacks and...
View ArticleCA Supermax Prisoners Win Right To Sue As A Class Over Torture, Decades-Long...
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordThe state of California may soon have to defend the indefensible. A federal judge has allowed inmates at the dreaded Pelican Bay supermax...
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