How the Healthcare Debate Got Hijacked

// If we let these powerful interests get their way, we’ll see more outlandish increases in premiums, and millions more people being denied care. How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health Care Debate By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted July 29, 2009. If you can frame the terms of a [...]

National hip-hop conference in Seattle this week

//  Hip Hop National Congress 8th national conference comes to Seattle’s Central District, July 29 to August 2. Hip-hop is making a stand this week in Seattle. Starting today, for a week, the Hip Hop Congress 8th National Conference comes to Seattle, at various venues across the Central District. Through workshops and concerts, the conference [...]

More Racial Drama in Texas-Hispanics Keep Out

// One week after a dust up between Neo Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen and Black Panthers in Paris, Texas, we have another racial incident in a state that is on the verge of changing while some of its old guard and ignorant desperately try to hold on. This one is small compared to the dust [...]

The Audacity of Post-Racism

The Audacity of Post-Racism //      By Adam Mansbach   I watched Barack Obama’s “Toward A More Perfect Union” in my living room, on a laptop computer with tinny speakers.  Like millions of other Americans, I felt a surge of amazement, a sense of expanding possibility, at the sheer fact that a black man with a [...]

Paris, Texas-The History of a Troubled City-Report Back from Paris pt2

// We continue our conversation with Brother Jesse about the racial unrest that took place in Paris Texas earlier this week. He was there to witness the drama as it unfolded. Here Jesse gives us an historical overview of the town. He talks about the sordid history of Paris, which was one of the leading [...]

Trae Day community celebration ruined by driveby shooting at Texas Southern

// By now everyone has heard about the unfortunate situation that went down Wednesday night on the Texas Southern University campus during a huge community event called ‘Trae Day’which was a day long celebration meant to honor popular Houston rapper Trae the Truth and  give out free school supplies. According to police reports, 6 people were injured in [...]

Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?

// By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Candidate Barack Obama told us to judge his first term by whether he delivers quality affordable health care for all Americans, including nearly fifty million uninsured. So why does his proposal not cover the uninsured till 2013, after the next presidential election when Medicare took only 11 [...]

President Obama Reacts to Harvard Arrest Says Police Acted Stupidily

// It was just last week that President Obama spoke at the NAACP  Convention and gave an incredible speech that received a rousing standing ovation. He covered a lot of ground, but frustratingly he never made mention of police brutality and the high number of incidents that have taken place with young Black and Brown [...]

M-1 of dead prez-Report Back from Gaza -Why we should be concerned w/Palestine and International Struggles …

// We caught up with M-1 of the group dead prez to find about his recent trip to Gaza. For folks who don’t recall, last week M-1 made headlines along with former Green Party Presidential candidate and Cynthia McKinney, New York City Councilman Charles Barron and UK Parliament member George Galloway.. They along with over 200 people [...]

Did White People Build This Country? A False Assertion Gets Corrected

// The challenge we have with today’s news media is that far too often it is driven by ‘expert’ punditry. We see this all the time where people holding lofty titles like ‘Professor’, ‘journalist’ and ‘doctor’ are invited onto shows as pundits and are assumed to be the definitive expert in the topics being discussed. As a result [...]

KKK & Neo Nazi’s Square Off Against Black Panthers in Paris, Texas

// Here’s pt2 of our interview with Brother Jesse Madness went down in Paris, Texas today as members of the New Black Panther Party and White Supremacists squared off. The trouble took place when skin heads descended upon a rally held by members of the Black community to protest the jasper style-dragging death  of Brandon [...]

Chris Brown Publicly Apologizes to Rihanna & His Fans

  //   In a video that appeared online late Monday afternoon (July 20), Chris Brown has apologized publicly for the first time about the domestic altercation that took place between him and Rihanna earlier this year. In the clip, obtained by MTV News, Brown, dressed in a red long-sleeve shirt with buttons on the [...]