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Bahia, Brazil,1798: The Revolution of the Black Jacobins
by Mário Maestri Brazil, with the largest Black population outside of Africa, once showed promise of becoming a planetary powerhouse of racial equality and social democracy. In the revolutionary...
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Economic Inequality: The Foundation of the Racial Divide
by Dedrick MohammedToday’s economic inequality is the direct result of Europe’s 500-year-long subjugation of the rest of the planet’s inhabitants. Even when corrective measures are undertaken, such as...
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Lula Puts Blue-Eyed White Bankers in Their Place
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordClick the flash player below to listen to, or the mic at left to download a broadcast quality MP3 of this BA Radio commentary.British Prime Minister Gordon...
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Let the IMF Die
by C. UzonduThe International Monetary Fund, that instrument of torture deployed to strip developing nations of their ability to function as sovereign governments, is on it’s death bed. It should be...
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The Olympics and Rio's Black Poor
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordThe gentry-pursued Black and poor population of Chicago got a reprieve from the Olympic committee last week. Now it's Rio de Janeiro's turn to invent clever...
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret KimberleyNothing scares the United States more than the possibility that peace might break out. Turkey and Brazil committed an unforgiveable sin, by finding...
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The Latin American Revolution, Part 4 of 4: Toward Integration
By Asad Ismi and Kristin SchwartzAfter being bled for 500 years by the colonial and neocolonial empires of the North, the nations of Central and South America are defying their former masters and...
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Black Consciousness in Brazil
by Italo RamosNew census data show two million more Brazilians now describe themselves as black than did so ten years ago, when“they had said that they were not blacks, but 'mestiços' or 'mulattos,' a...
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Brazil’s Haitian Training Ground
minustah.jpgby BAR editor and columnist Jemima PierreWhen there’s a need to gain national prestige, curry favor with imperial power, or seize the opportunity to train your soldiers to occupy other...
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The Other Black History: The Maroons and Zumbi dos Palmares
zumbi.jpgA Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonAfrican slaves in the US, the Caribbean and Brazil ran away whenever they could. In favorable situations, escaped slaves...
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Throwing BRICS at the U.S. Empire
brics396.jpgby BAR executive editor Glen FordHistory has placed the BRICS nations on the path of confrontation with a superpower in decline. Washington is prepared to strangle the world into...
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Latin America Unites to Tell Uncle Sam “Hands Off Venezuela”
Chavez.jpgA Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen FordWashington smelled blood when the successors to Hugo Chavez won by only a small margin in Venezuelan elections. The U.S. refused...
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Brazil-Afrikan State Collaborations and the Tokenization of “Cultural Affinity”
AfroBrazil.jpgby Wangui KimariThere’s lots of talk about the cultural ties that bind Brazil, the economic dynamo, to Africa, ancestral home to half Brazil’s population and current source of much of its...
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Race, Class and the World Cup in Brazil
fifa_brasil2014.jpgby Mike LaSusaThe Brazilian government and big business wanted the World Cup very badly. But the people wanted better public services – especially the majority that identify as...
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