Radicalized = Weaponized = Kill at Will
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordThese days, a radical label can get you killed. In National Security Speech, “it is clear that to ‘radicalize’ means very much the same as...
View ArticleFreedom Rider: Sex Tapes and Butlers
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyRacist propaganda comes in many forms, and from many sources. Russell Simmons and Lee Daniels are well-paid Black purveyors of the anti-Black...
View ArticleObama’s Anti-Black Rant
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordObama’s twisted view of Black people and their history was on full display at the March on Washington anniversary. The president spewed...
View ArticleThe Radicalization of Ray Richardson: Suspicion Still Surrounds Death of...
by Jeffrey B. Perry and Charles V. RichardsonIn January, 1971, the young producer of Boston public television’s groundbreaking program Say Brother, was found dead in a Mexican resort, along with his...
View ArticleFrom the Bullet to the Ballot: An Unfavorable Review of a Work on the Black...
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonHistorians are supposed to help us make sense of the world, by illuminating the forces and trends that shape the lives and destinies of ordinary people. But...
View ArticleA Moral Outrage: Albert Woodfox's 41 Years in Solitary Confinement – An...
by Angola 3 NewsOne more to go. “Albert Woodfox remains the sole Angola 3 member still in prison.” His comrade, Herman Wallace, was released in October, just a few days before dying of liver cancer....
View ArticleFreedom Rider: The Burglary and COINTELPRO
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyForty three years ago, a group of brave activists clandestinely liberated documents from an FBI office that proved the existence of COINTELPRO, the...
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IFCO Tax Exemption ImperiledThe IRS is threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, IFCO, the venerable anti-poverty and human rights group....
View ArticleMaking the Case for an Election Boycott: Why the Left Should Refrain from US...
by Danny HaiphongThe left should not participate in, “and thus provide consent for, the rule of imperialism every four years.” Say “No” to the charade. “Barack Obama's two-term presidency has been a...
View ArticleAn Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should...
by Colin JenkinsThere is no need to wholly reinvent the wheels of revolutionary struggle in the United States. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense provides a still-useful model. “The party...
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The Chosen People – for Incarceration“They’ve created a permanent caste from which people cannot escape,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress (POP),...
View ArticleAmerica: Young Black Men Have No Right to Life
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordOver the past 50 years, Black America has gone from fists in the air to arms raised in surrender; from assertion of the right to self-defense, to pleas for...
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Homage to the Freedom-Fighting Freeman Bros
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat TurnerThe Freedom-fighting Freeman Bros are Heroes, now, just as they were back then, Stellar, like the Nicholas Bros to tap dancing The Alou, Alomar and...
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University of Revolution
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat TurnerMass rallies, strikes, pickets, voter registration, armed Self-defense; from flash-mobbing miserly Wal-Marts, To slipping “Which Side Are You On?” in on the...
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