Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Framing Race in Mississippi
13 May 2009
by Michelle Chen As Nina Simone sang it, “Mississippi Goddamn!” The Magnolia State, which ranks last in the nation on human development criteria, achieved that distinction by…
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“Out of the Closet”: Black Atheists
13 May 2009
by Sikivu Hutchinson It’s not easy being a Black atheist, “partly due to the fact that the history of African American civil and human rights resistance is heavily steeped in Judeo-Christian…
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Nine Things The Diaspora Can Do About Somalia
13 May 2009
by Cedric Muhammad In their vicious campaign to legitimize Western military intervention in East Africa, US and European government and corporate media present us with stories of Somali “piracy.”…
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Blacks and Latinos in the U.S.: Still an Evolving Relationship
13 May 2009
by Robert Suro Although a fair number of Americans are aware that the United States will become a “majority minority” nation sometime around the year 2050, few contemplate how the “distinct…
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Obama's First Massacre
13 May 2009
by Emir Sader An American president might well consider the murder of innocent civilians an acceptable price to further his country's imperial goals. If that is his choice to make, then we too…
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Billions in Fish Stolen From African Waters Annually, Says Environmental Justice Foundation
10 May 2009
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Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Down Insurance Companies
06 May 2009
by David Swanson The only way to get something that remotely resembles single payer health care is to demand…single payer health care. Progressives that supported single payer now set their sites…
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Genius Burning Brightly: The Unraveling of Gil Scott-Heron
05 May 2009
by TaRessa Stovall Gil Scott Heron lives - but barely, says the author. "We were close enough to see the unnatural glaze of his eyes, the tremors quaking his hands and legs as he leaned…
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Chrysler's Plan? Send Pay, Retirement Benefits and Standards Down the Drain
05 May 2009
The same fearless, insightful news media that misrepresents Wall Street's raid on the U.S. Treasury as somehow necessary to save the economy has a story to tell about how the harm to hundreds of…
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If Health Insurance Companies Ran the Postal Service...
05 May 2009