Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
The Great Debate -- Is Barack Obama Good For Black People? Part 1 of 2
05 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…
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Turning Racism Upside Down To See It Right Side Up: The Remix
05 Aug 2009
by Dr. Edward Rhymes Attorney General Eric Holder described Americans as “cowards” when it comes to race. Certainly, white America refuses to confront white criminality and social pathology,…
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So Much for the Promised Land
05 Aug 2009
by Chris Hedges “The conditions for black men and women in America are sliding backward, with huge numbers of impoverished and unemployed removed from society and locked up.” Yet an often “craven”…
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Single Payer Summer
05 Aug 2009
by David Swanson Although a single payer health care bill isn't ”even remotely likely to pass” this year, there are lots of reasons to continue the legislative battle. Says the author: “I think one…
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The Crimes of Bongo: Apartheid & Terror in Africa's Gardens of Eden, Part II
05 Aug 2009
by keith harmon snow When Gabon President Omar Bongo died of a heart attack at age 73 in early June, multinational corporations and neocolonial leaders in Europe and the U.S. mourned his passing. He…
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“Skip” Gates: A Curious Martyr in the Struggle Against Racism
28 Jul 2009
by Paul Street President Obama’s “friend” Dr. Henry Louis Gates has been richly rewarded for arguing “that poor African-Americans are largely to blame for the fact that blacks stand at the bottom of…
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How Henry Louis Gates Got Ordained as the Nation's "Leading Black Intellectual"
28 Jul 2009
by Ishmael Reed Who is Henry Louis Gates and how did he get to be one of the nation's most prominent black academics? How has he managed to make a career talking down to African Americans…
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“Skip” Gates Slapped So Hard, the Red, White and Blue Pom-Poms Dropped from His Eyes
28 Jul 2009
by Henry Rose Dr. Gates told the Cambridge cop he didn't know who he was messing with. But some of us Black folks know Dr. Gates only too well. “Over the last 15 years Gates has often been…
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Encounters with Police: Teachable Moments
28 Jul 2009
by Robert Jensen A frequent lecturer on race and politics, the author was confident that he was reasonable well acquainted with the workings of racism in the United States. Attuned to the…
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When Lighting Up is Drinking from the Whites-Only Fountain
28 Jul 2009
by Richard Leader Given that white drug users are spared the relentless prosecution and long prison terms reserved for African Americans, are such whites beneficiaries of a racist system? The author…