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Bill Quigley
Has Obama Lost His Mojo?
02 Sep 2009
by Dr. Ron Daniels Something happened to Obama on the way to the White House. Or so it seems to the author, who says the president “has been unwilling to move beyond professorial pronouncements and lectures to vigorously argue the case that the issue is not how to keep the insurance and…
Bill Quigley
Davey D Interviews Cynthia McKinney on Gaza
02 Sep 2009
Bill Quigley
Glen Ford on Black Radio, the Black Conversation and Black Leadership
02 Sep 2009
Question: What is the historical importance of black radio to African Americans?
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Katrina’s Legacy: Poor Blacks Have No Right to “Be”
02 Sep 2009
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama's Katrina anniversary remarks reveal a president who rails against bureaucracy while ignoring the savage race and class warfare at the heart of the (ongoing) disaster. The right of the Black poor to exist is at issue, but that's way outside Obama's…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Leaving Obamaland
26 Aug 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats could accomplish nothing during the Bush years, they told us, for the first six years because they were a minority, and during the last two because Republicans could filibuster. Now, with both houses of congress, a filibuster-proof senate…
Bill Quigley
The Campaign, Written in 4 Parts -- Part 4
30 Oct 2008
by Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet What do campaigns and elections mean? What and who changes? What else and who else stays the same? Why does it matter? Lots of us have ideas, but the Seven Foot Poet knows and shows from open to close. Click the link below…
Bill Quigley
To The Coming
12 Nov 2008
by Kemet Mawakana These are historic times. But then, what times haven't been? The Seven Foot Poet keeps us anchored not just in the present, the immediate past and the forseeable future, but orients us in the dimensionless expanse of time inhabited by our ancestors, our future…
Bill Quigley
Make Believe
01 Mar 2009
By Kemet Mawakana The Seven Foot Poet reflects on what we think of as manhood, how "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" and what we imagine it means to "man up." Do click the link below to hear this original work performed by the Seven Foot Poet.
Bill Quigley
Is Barack Obama Good For Black People? The Great Debate in Harlem, Part 2 of 2
12 Aug 2009
On June 25, hundreds of black America's formost thnkers and doers gathered at St. Mary's Church in Harlem NY to ask and answer the question of whether Barack Obama was good or bad for black America. We here present some of the 5 to 7 minute presentations pro and con on whether Barack Obama is good…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The President, Progressives and the Myth of the Robust Public Option
09 Sep 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon The good news is that progressives in Congress are insisting on a "robust public option" in any health care legislation that will drive down coverage prices and be available to anybody who wants it. The bad news is that they knew insurance lobbyists and the…