Top Ten Things That Have and Have Have Not Changed In the Era of Obama

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Top Ten Things That Have and Haven’t Changed In the Era of Obama     In the spirit of Bill Clinton’s 1992 “the Man From Hope” slogan, Barack Obama in 2008 declared himself the candidate of Hope and Change. So what about it? Are the real changes, if we can find them, at all what [...]

The Black Press Ponder Obama-Love

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A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Barack Obama’s top African American aide assures Black journalists that the president has “genuine love” for the Black community. It is an insubstantial line of inquiry, the product of “an infantile obsession with the inner world of the Obamas that is wholly disconnected from the real world [...]

Glen Ford: Corporate Assault on Public Education

  takeovers of public education key to the hard right’s agenda in the US? In an address this month at NYC’s All Souls Unitarian Church, Glen Ford outlines the linked history of these two right wing efforts, from vouchers to charter schools to the new wave of black politicians like Cory Booker. Click “read more” [...]

The Secret Behind Whitney’s Death

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The regretful passing of an American entertainment icon — Whitney Houston — marks yet another sad milestone in the devastating body count of the prescription drug industry…

Xavier Asante’s Response to Tom Joyner

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Tom Joyner’s spent a lot of time talking about Black Pride. Let us not forget that Black Pride includes questioning your government. Huey, Dr. King and Malcolm X would attest…

Black Woman Defends “Racism”

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“I’m American to the bone and Black American to the marrow. Encouraging and socially bullying folks into interracial unions is dangerous for us. We’re only 13% of the population; we will not exist as a people if we mix out.”

The Truth About Thanksgiving: Brainwashing of the American History Textbook

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The Truth About Thanksgiving: Brainwashing of the American History Textbook –   – Those who are indigenous to this land we call “The United States of America” have been long misrepresented and pushed out of American history textbooks in favor of glorifying those who now rule this nation and represent the dominant culture. What kind of [...]

As expected, widespread racist murders in Libya at the hands of rebel forces revealed

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They are called “Gaddafi loyalists”, “Sub-Saharan mercenaries” and other phrases the unfortunate reality is that every single black person is now considered to be a mercenary hired by Gaddafi…

NATO Loots Libyan Gold As Tripoli Falls

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Precisely as we predicted last month, NATO forces and their Al-Qaeda backed rebels launched a massive assault on Tripoli in order to wrap up the looting

US, NATO Officials Openly Admit To Arming, Training Libyan Rebels, Forcing Regime Change

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As some quarters of the mainstream media are still reporting that the battle for the Libyan capitol Tripoli is part of a popular uprising, Senior US and NATO officials confirmed today…