Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
America’s Shame: 2 years after Hurricane Katrina
08 Aug 2007
by the Sacramento Area Black Caucus Two years have gone by, and Black America has failed to respond in any coherent fashion to the catastrophe that we call Katrina: the death of a Black city. It…
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Fighting for the Right to Learn: The Public Education Experiment in New Orleans
08 Aug 2007
by Bill Quigley Corporate America saw opportunity in the death of 1,000 or more people in New Orleans, and the exile of hundreds of thousands. Entrenched in the Bush administration was a private…
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Cynthia McKinney Confronts Corporate Media Malice in Court
01 Aug 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The American judicial system is not the place to seek Black liberation or redress, but it can serve to put our grievances on the record. The Atlanta Journal-…
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Greens Put Mass Incarceration at Top of Agenda, While Democrats Mumble
01 Aug 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford The Green Party, once perceived by many Blacks as a club for white counterculturalists, now champions an end to racially selective…
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Conyers’ Contradictory Stances on Impeachment, Reparations
01 Aug 2007
by David Swanson The venerable Rep. John Conyers has long been among the most progressive members of the U.S. House. Now chairman of the Judiciary Committee, where impeachment proceedings must…
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The Troubled Birth of the National Civil Rights Museum
01 Aug 2007
by The Honorable D'Army Bailey, BAR contributing editor The man who rescued Memphis' Lorraine Motel, site of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, from decline and ultimate sale to developers,…
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Immigration and Military Enlistment: The Pentagon's Push for the DREAM Act Heats Up
01 Aug 2007
by Jorge Mariscal About 8,000 permanent resident aliens already enlist in the U.S. military every year, an influx that partially offsets the dramatic drop in Black recruitment since…
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Welcome to Richistan, USA
01 Aug 2007
by Paul Harris U.S. presidents are fond of beginning their speeches with the phrase, "My fellow Americans." However, in recent decades, and especially since George W. Bush seized the White House…
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South Carolina: The Black Primary
25 Jul 2007
by Kevin Alexander Gray The Democratic field of presidential candidates are all attempting to make the right noises in South Carolina, which is effectively the "Black primary" in the race. But…
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Just Another Dead Nigger!
25 Jul 2007
by Wise Intelligent The NAACP and other Black organizations pretend to be fighting the racist enemy by waging war on the word "nigger," as expressed by Black people, themselves. It is a purely…