Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Music Education in Detroit's Public Schools: The Struggle to Survive
15 Jun 2010
by George Shirley Please, don’t stop the music. That’s the theme sounded by a host of Detroit citizens, as budget cutters move to shut down most of the Motor City’s public school music program.…
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Political Prisoners: What Will We Do About It?
15 Jun 2010
by Kwasi Anokye Americans – including some African Americans – rant about political prisoners held in countries they cannot even identify on a map, yet seem oblivious to the fact that fellow…
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“Felony is the New ‘N-Word”: Michelle Alexander on Mass Incarceration as “The New Jim Crow” in the Age of Obama
09 Jun 2010
by Paul Street The author – himself a renowned Left, anti-racist scholar and activist – calls Alexander’s work “as close to being a perfect book as you are going to see.” While established Black…
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Federal Authorities Paid Journalists To Sabotage Trial
09 Jun 2010
by Linn Washington Jr. Members of the rabidly anti-Castro Miami press got some extra incentives to make it impossible for the Cuban Five to get a fair trial, in 2001. The federal government…
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The "Predatory Buccaneer" and the Overpopulation Lie
02 Jun 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR columnist Jared A. Ball, Ph.D. The logic of the world-stealers leads inexorably to genocide. Thus, the vast miseries that are the inevitable result of…
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AFRICOM and the ICC: Enforcing international justice in Africa?
02 Jun 2010
by Samar Al-Bulushi and Adam Branch The United States, which has never joined the International Criminal Court for fear that it might be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, is gearing up to…
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Texas School Board Disappears Race History
02 Jun 2010
by Linn Washington, Jr. The South is rising again – at least according to the narratives of books vetted by the Texas Board of Education. Right-wing icons and shibboleths are in, the struggle…
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The Rise of Rand Paul: Dissecting the Reactionary Right on Civil Rights, the Environment, and Worker Safety
27 May 2010
by Anthony DiMaggio MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is credited with “outing” Tea Party champion Rand Paul, winner of the Republican senatorial nomination in Kentucky, as a racist. In point of…
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What Really Separates the Tea Party from The Black Panther Party
27 May 2010
by Crystal Hayes TheRoot.com, the online site targeted at Blacks but owned by the huge Washington Post corporation, recently ran an idiotic piece comparing the Tea Party to the Black…
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The story of Kamau Marcharia (a.k.a. Robert John Lewis)
27 May 2010
by Kevin Alexander Gray Over decades of fighting to empower Blacks in South Carolina, Kamau Marcharia has made lots of enemies. Marcharia is running for a seat in the state legislature,…