Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Structural Racism Not on ABC's Agenda
08 Apr 2009
by Julie Hollar U.S. corporate media pretend to explore issues of race in America, but seldom go beyond matters of general perception, anecdotes, images, and questions about the availability…
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Misogyny and Black Youth: Silence Equals Death
08 Apr 2009
The educator/journalist observed that some of the boys in her classroom were “bursting with perspective” on “the widespread use of the words ‘bitch’ and ‘ho’ to describe young women of color on…
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Haiti: The Audacity of Hopelessness
08 Apr 2009
by John Maxwell Haiti’s gift to humanity was to become “the first nation anywhere to enshrine the rights of man, woman and child, the fundamental universal rights of human beings, in their…
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Eshu’s blues: Ayers and Dohrn Speak Out on Behalf of the Emperor
01 Apr 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez Oh, how the once-revolutionaries have fallen! Thus, former Weatherman William Ayers and his back-in-the-day comrade and spouse Bernardine Dohrn sing the praises…
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BAR Interviews A Real Community Organizer:: James Thindwa, Chicago Jobs With Justice
01 Apr 2009
Glen Ford interviews Chicago's James Thindwa on the impact of economic crises on ordinary families, and on the ramifications of the Employee Free Choice Act, soon to be introduced in Congress, with…
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The White House, ‘The Gray Lady’ and The Black Press
01 Apr 2009
by Askia Muhammad The New York Times routinely reinvents history, even as it claims to be the first draft. On the subject of Black press interaction with the White House, the Times acts like a novice…
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Media Crisis and Grassroots Response
01 Apr 2009
by Jordan Flaherty The collapsing corporate media model of journalism does not augur well for the alternative, Left press, which no longer does much nitty-gritty work of investigation and slogging-it…
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Economic Inequality: The Foundation of the Racial Divide
01 Apr 2009
by Dedrick Mohammed Today’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…
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Tony Papa's Vindication: NY Reforms Rockefeller Drug Laws
01 Apr 2009
by Marcelo Ballvé New York’s so-called Rockefeller Drug Laws condemned hundreds of thousands of individuals and whole communities to a living hell for a generation-and-a-half, under a mandatory…
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Jamaica's Golden Future of Bauxite
01 Apr 2009
by John Maxwell Corporate exploitation of Jamaica’s bauxite, an essential component of aluminum, has ravaged a tropical paradise. In addition to mangling the landscape and silting the once-pristine…