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Bill Quigley
Social Justice Quiz 2017: Children – Ten Questions
17 Aug 2017
Spoiler alert for quiz-takers: The U.S. ranks pitifully low in maintaining the health and welfare of its children when compared with most of the richer countries of the world. Social Justice Quiz 2017: Children – Ten Questions by Bill Quigley Question One. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 14.8…
by Black Agenda Radio producer Kyle Fraser
Millions for Prisoners’ Human Rights March in DC
17 Aug 2017
The world’s largest slave system -- the U.S. prison gulag – was legalized by an “exception” to the Constitution. On August 19, thousands will gather in Washington to demand the abolition of that system. Millions for Prisoners’ Human Rights March in DC by BAR producer Kyle Fraser “IAmWeUbuntu and…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Tuskeegee, Guatemala...
20 Oct 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The Nazi “Doctor of Death,” Joseph Mengele, lived out his last years in hiding and infamy in South America. But the American Dr. Mengele, Dr. John C. Cutler, who infected human beings with syphilis in Alabama and Guatemala, died in the bosom…
michael hureaux perez
Eshu’s blues: Field days for gumbo ya ya
19 Nov 2008
by BAR columnist michael hureaux When a Black teenager accidentally shoots his best friend, it is "all just one more weekend, one of those lunatic moments when one young Black man kills another young Black man, and once all the usual sociological theorizing rolls by, no one really knows why,…
Doug Miller
Blacks/Latinos Hit Particularly Hard As Mortgage Crisis Lingers
23 Nov 2011
by Doug Miller The home foreclosure crisis isn’t even halfway over, according to a new report. Ethnically targeted mortgaging practices between 2004 and 2008 have left one quarter of all Latinos and African Americans either without their homes, in foreclosure, or seriously delinquent. “…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Supreme Injustices
20 Jun 2007
by Bar editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Our worst nightmares are becoming reality as George Bush's U.S. Supreme Court strangles the very concept of due process and nonracial administration of justice. In its latest frothings, the High Court ruled that workers must be clairvoyant…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Reagan Wins in 2008
09 May 2007
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The ten-man GOP presidential candidates debate was yet another opportunity for Republicans to "openly indulge in their love of racism, violence and control" - and for corporate media to demonstrate their eager complicity as hate-mongers. The…
Bill Quigley
‘He’s a Mouse’: Russell Simmons Speaks Some Truth on Obama
09 May 2007
by Paul Street For what it's worth, Russell Simmons doesn't think much of Barack Obama. The hip hop businessman prefers former Senator John Edwards, who "has said more things about the conditions we need to think about." Hordes of Simmons' fellow multi-millionaires have flocked to the Obama…
Bill Quigley
A New Book on Clarence ‘The Lawn Jockey’ Thomas
09 May 2007
by George E. Curry The man who depicted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a lawn jockey on the cover of Emerge magazine, back in 1993, presents a positive review of a new book on "the supreme prick from Pinpoint, Georgia." The book, Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas…
Bill Quigley
Corporate Greed and Private Prisons
09 May 2007
by Charlene Muhammad The Prison Industrial Complex is rapidly becoming a private enterprise gulag, "a modern-day slave system" in which the bulk of toilers are Black. Huge corporations fatten their bottom lines by paying prison inmates "less than you would in third world countries." Some of…