Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Obama's Multiracial Coalition and the Politics of Racial Reconciliation
19 Mar 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon As the presidential campaign heats up, the precarious nature of Obama's "multiracial coalition" along with the nature of the "racial reconciliation" his…
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Poetry from Kemit Mawakana
19 Mar 2008
A.K.A. the Seven Foot Poet This week the 7 foot poet muses on the worth of a life spent spitting on the mic, a life lived for the "culture" of hip-hop, a life spent in pursuit of something that…
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Who Sounded the Black Ideological Retreat
19 Mar 2008
by Mel Reeves When did Black liberation theology and the prophetic tradition of the black church become "hate speech"? When did asserting that racism was and remains foundational to the…
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Fire and Damnation Awaits Those Who Transgress Against White America’s Civic Religion
19 Mar 2008
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford The transgression of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, pastor of Barack Obama's church home of twenty years in Chicago were not Scriptural. Wright…
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An Unfinished Agenda: Fair Housing And Community Development To Fight The Vestiges Of Segregation
19 Mar 2008
by Elizabeth Julian The mass movement for fairness in housing died more than a generation ago, and consistent rollbacks of that eras gains have been the rule for more than two decades now.…
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Billionaire Bangarang
13 Mar 2008
by John Maxwell From Montego Bay to Moscow, and from Aspen to Islamabad, the gap between the very rich and the rest of us continues to widen. Is the increasing distress of the poor…
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Brazilian Military’s Experience Comes Full Circle in Haiti
13 Mar 2008
by Kevin Pina Since the withdrawal of most US occupation forces from Haiti, Brazilian troops have taken on the task of hunting down grassroots activists, and terrorizing the neighborhoods that…
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The Obama Bubble: Why Wall Street Needs a Presidential Brand
05 Mar 2008
by Pam Martens Despite Barack Obama's claim that his campaign represents a mass "movement" of "average folks," the initial core of his support was largely comprised of rich denizens of Wall…
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Black Prison Gulag and the Police State
05 Mar 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. is King of the global prison hill, the result of a ferocious policy of mass Black incarceration. A new study by researchers at the Pew organization…
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The Kerner Commission Report at 40: A Real Program for “Change” that is Still Being Ignored
05 Mar 2008
by Dedrick Muhammad The 1968 Kerner Commission, created by President Lyndon Johnson in the wake of the previous year's riots in Newark and Detroit, proposed economic solutions to the vast…