Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Barack Obama versus Black Self-Determination
28 May 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford One of the great ironies of the current campaign season, is the assumption by so many Black voters that by supporting Barack Obama for president, they are making…
Bill Quigley
U.S. Incites Secession South of the Border
28 May 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford All of sudden, three secessionist "movements" have sprung up in South America, all of them located in fossil fuel-rich regions of countries resisting U.…
Bill Quigley
Miami’s Urban Beach Week: A Gathering of Cops
28 May 2008
by Mel Reeves Every year several hundred thousand Black youths gather at Miami's South Beach for Urban Beach Week, and each year the local police show them that African Americans are not wanted.…
Bill Quigley
“Humanitarian Aid” at Gunpoint Isn't Humanitarian
21 May 2008
By Mel Reeves When is an invasion not an invasion? When it's a "humanitarian intervention", of course. Some of the same folks who gave us Iraq, and want to give us Iran now want to…
Bill Quigley
Making Real Change: Taking On Black Commercial Radio
21 May 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Black commercial radio station owners, like all other broadcasters, hold their licenses on the condition that they faithfully serve the public interest. But…
Bill Quigley
Poverty Wages
21 May 2008
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor How do we understand the historical reluctance of average whites, to ally themselves with nonwhites and fight against racism that ultimately drives…
Bill Quigley
The Perils of Racial Solidarity
21 May 2008
by Kevin Alexander Gray Is it really the duty of us all, as African Americans to keep quiet about the wars in Africa and Iraq, to shut up about the credit and housing squeezes that are…
Bill Quigley
Like A Lap Dog
21 May 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) When is an exalted honoree a dishonored servant? When is one sitting high actually stooping low? The Seven Foot Poet has the…
Bill Quigley
Somalia: Hidden Catastrophe, Hidden Agenda
21 May 2008
by Media Lens, UK Since 1996 the US has engaged in a continual "low-intensity" war in Somalia that has killed a million of that country's inhabitants, a death toll second only to the…
Bill Quigley
Bigoted Anti-Obama Attacks Divert Attention From Pervasive Institutional Racism
21 May 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Do the reactions to racist attacks on Barack Obama prove that we as a nation are on the way to "transcending race"? Do racist attacks on Barack Obama…