In an action which is unprecedented on several levels, black, brown and white inmates of Georgia's notorious state prison system are standing together for a historic one day peaceful strike today, during which they are remaining in their cells, refusing work and other assignments and activiti/… Read full post »

By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon

Can a black president be guilty of environmental racism? President Obama's new proposed nukes are in one of the poorest areas east of the Mississippi. Burke County Georgia is majority black, the home of existing commercial nuclear reactors… Read full post »

This will be quick and dirty.  I wrote another, also hurried version of this for my weekly column at Black Agenda Report, but will take another lick at it here on OS.

I will not ever give a nickel to the Red Cross for anything, because I remember what they did… Read full post »