The Most Important Presidential Election Ever. Again. No, Really!

The Most Important Presidential Election Ever.  Really.
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
Every four years we hear that the current presidential election is undoubtedly the most important one in our lifetimes, perhaps the most significant in all the long history of the republic.  We heard it (and some of us said it) four years [...]

THE INFLUENCE OF MARCUS GARVEY PT. 1

F*** Joe the Plumber: Economic Equality and The Myth of “Free Markets”

by Tre B.
dangerousNEGRO.com
Now I’m no expert economist, so like Levar Burton used to say on Reading Rainbow, “You don’t have to take my word for it…”  However, there are some commentators in the media, who claim to be experts, telling outright lies.  Maybe it’s intentional or maybe they’re just ignorant, but let me tell you [...]

COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War Against Black America pt 1 of 5

Report: Global Warming Disproportionately Affects African Americans, Low-Income Communities

by Kimberley D. Mok, Montreal, Canada on 10.22.08
Image: EJCC website
Though it may have struck you already, a recent report corroborates what some advocates and the Hurricane Katrina debacle are making painfully clear: that people of colour are disproportionately affected by climate change and related disasters.
Titled A Climate of Change: African Americans, Global Warming, and a [...]

Black Men Say Rebel Flag Flies for Freedom

For an hour, the Confederate battle flag flew over the former site of the Eight Flags Display on U.S. 90.
Dressed in Confederate gray, a black man named Anthony Hervey marched with the banner clutched in his hands. His brother, Harry, accompanied him, wearing jeans and a Robert E. Lee T-shirt.
Hervey’s devotion to the flag began [...]

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Barack & Curtis: Manhood, Power, & Respect

The Bailout and Reparations

By Tre Millyanz
I just have one point to make to all you hankerchief-headed Negroes out there that don’t “believe” in reparations…you can’t ever say that the U.S. can’t afford to give reparations to Blacks in America (for slavery and Jim Crow semi-slavery).  They spend $700 billion for a bailout and have a $661 billion budget for [...]

Racism Without Racists

Racism Without Racists
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 4, 2008
One of the fallacies this election season is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists.On the contrary, the evidence is that Senator Obama is facing what scholars have dubbed “racism without racists.”
The racism is difficult [...]