Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Can't Knock the Hassle: Chavez Challenges Baseball
05 Mar 2008
by Dave Zirin Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is pitching a (literal) shutout to Major League Baseball owners that scour his country in search of "talent on the cheap." Baseball employers "sign…
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Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?
05 Mar 2008
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No Arms! No Transfers! No Military Aid! It's Time To Demilitarize US Policy in Africa
27 Feb 2008
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Since the end of the Cold War, under Democrats and Republicans alike, the US has provided tens of billions of dollars worth of military aid, military…
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James Orange, Civil Rights Legend
27 Feb 2008
by Heather Gray He was the quintessential activist, a man who addressed all other strivers for social change as "leader." Rev. James Orange, an indispensable leader who was "central to virtually…
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U.S. Among Harshest for Sentencing Children
27 Feb 2008
by Daniel Macallair The American Prison Gulag, the shame of the planet, reveals its utter barbarity in condemning thousands of children to permanent imprisonment. The U.S. "justice" system far…
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Black Caucus Pitches Fit at Union Over Wynn Loss
27 Feb 2008
by Leutisha Stills, CBC Monitor Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are "seething" with anger over Rep. Al Wynn's Democratic primary defeat at the hands of Donna Edwards, in Maryland earlier…
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Bahia, Brazil,1798: The Revolution of the Black Jacobins
27 Feb 2008
by Mário Maestri Brazil, with the largest Black population outside of Africa, once showed promise of becoming a planetary powerhouse of racial equality and social democracy. In the…
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A Black President? Sure. But If We Don't Do Nothin' He Won't Do Nothin'
20 Feb 2008
a speech by Amiri Baraka, recorded earlier this month in Newark Give Obama a break, some of his supporters argue. He's got to get elected first. Till them he can't be seen acknowledging the…
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On Black Violence
20 Feb 2008
by Mel Reeves Often with the best intentions, many African Americans have effectively joined our worst enemies in proclaiming "Black-on-Black" violence to be the main problem afflicting Black…
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Obama’s White Male Voters: Do They Hear Something Blacks Don’t?
20 Feb 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The corporate media and most Blacks with access to a mass public never seem to seriously examine the meaning of the most dramatic, history-shaking statistic…