Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Black Congress, Critical of Obama, to Convene in D.C. to Set Black Agenda
22 Jun 2010
by APSP The Black political party that confronted then-candidate Barack Obama on the campaign trail in August, 2008 with the simple question, “What about the Black community, Mr. Obama…
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D-Town: African American Farmers, Food Security and Detroit
22 Jun 2010
The Black metropolis of Detroit is, in many respects, a “food desert” where “both economic and physical barriers stand between people and their access to healthy and affordable foods.” But D-Town…
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Foreclosure Storm: Minorities Swept Up in Greater Numbers
22 Jun 2010
by Doug Miller The data are finally starting to come in, and the numbers are horrifying. The Great Recession inflicted wounds on Black America that will cripple communities for years to…
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We Need ACORN
22 Jun 2010
by David Swanson The national grassroots organization ACORN, assassinated by corporate media and the Right last year with the help of many Democrats, is mourned by its former…
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Can We “Fix” the Oil and Financial Crisis Before It's Too Late?
22 Jun 2010
by Danny Schechter, author of Plunder: The Crime of Our Time Corporate media pretend the U.S. economy is healing nicely and that Wall Street has learned how to run a more responsible…
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Eshu’s blues: Launching a Teacher’s Fightback Newsletter in Seattle
22 Jun 2010
by michael hureaux perez If there is one organized force with the potential to resist Barack Obama’s corporate offensive, it is the teachers unions. Yet the multi-million-member American…
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Trial Delayed in New Fake Terror Case
22 Jun 2010
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Not Knocking on Heaven’s Door: Black Atheists, Urban America
15 Jun 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson Enormous pressures push African Americans to embrace a Black “hyper-religiosity” – or, at least, to profess to it – despite the fact that “the proliferation of storefront…
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Cultural Extinction: Louisiana’s Coastal Communities Fear They May Never Recover
15 Jun 2010
by Jordan Flaherty Even before the latest catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, Big Energy had laid waste to Black and Native American communities along the coast. At least five all-Black towns were…
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African American Mississippi Man Starts Record Sixth Murder Trial
15 Jun 2010
by Bill Quigley, Audrey Stewart and Davida Finger White prosecutors in a rural Mississippi county won’t rest until they send Curtis Flowers to prison for life. Flowers faces his sixth trail…