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Bill Quigley
Harlem's Mae Jackson: When Obama Speaks, Whose Lips Move?
16 Jun 2009
If you don't see the video above, click here. Mae Jackson is a New York City based writer, poet, dreamer and doer whose record of activism on behalf of her people stretches back to SNCC. A founder of Art Without Walls, an art program for the children of imprisoned women, she is well acquainted…
Bill Quigley
Eshu’s blues: It’s a jungle out here
16 Jun 2009
by BAR columnist michael hureaux perez The imperial menu offers us a range of dishes, from prime cut mass murder (Congo, Af-Pak), to trailer park cold cuts a la Sarah Palin and her abstinence-preaching daughter-momma. And then there's “Golden Tonsils Obama, whose Cairo speech just two weeks ago…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Ahmadinejad Wins
16 Jun 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley “Few Americans were aware that Iran has even a limited democracy.” Yet, today most of them have an opinion as to whether or not Iran's recent election was rigged. In typical egocentric fashion, Americans and their corporate media believe the…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Selective Sympathy for Iran
24 Jun 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States reserves for itself the right to say what and when the world should be watching. “People who work for peace and justice must show skepticism when the media tell them who deserves their attention and advocacy efforts.” The…
Bill Quigley
Tradition of Same Gender Marriage in Igboland, Nigeria
23 Jun 2009
by Leo Igwe Black homophobes often invoke “African” culture to buttress their arguments against gay rights, including the right to marry. But, according to the author, a native of southern Nigeria, the Igbo culture has long nurtured same-sex couples consisting of "woman-husband" and "woman-wife."…
Bill Quigley
The Great Debate in Harlem
24 Jun 2009
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24 Jun 2009
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by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Letter to Obama: Blacks Fear Shut Out of Highway Stimulus Contracts
23 Jun 2009
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. The "rising tide" of economic stimulus that President Obama promises will "lift all boats" from the…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Puppet Government of Somalia Invites Everybody to Invade
23 Jun 2009
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary. In what should be its last gasp, the regime that claims to govern Somalia, "huddled in a corner of…