Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
17 Oct 2007
by Tim Wise Poor Murphy McMillin, mayor of Jena, Louisiana. He and his town got a black eye for their treatment of six African American teenagers, causing tens of thousands of folks to descend on…
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The Difference Between Black Brazil and Black U.S.
17 Oct 2007
by BAR contributing editor Italo Ramos African Americans sometimes embarrass themselves, often without know it, by assuming that others from the Diaspora see the world in the same way as…
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Pentagon Plans 100-Year Global War in the Cities
17 Oct 2007
by Nick Turse Weapons that take out one floor of a city building, but leave the structure standing. Robot spies that look like dragonflies that can fly into your apartment to scope its contents.…
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The Socialist Joy of Langston Hughes
10 Oct 2007
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Living for Change: The Jena 6 and Black Leadership
10 Oct 2007
by Stephen Ward The most salient aspects of the recent demonstration in Jena, Louisiana, are the grassroots nature of the protest and massive involvement of African American youth. The plight of…
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Cincinnati’s in a World of Trouble, But All the Rulers Want is a New Jail
10 Oct 2007
by Dan La Botz Six years ago, Cincinnati's Black neighborhoods exploded in revolt against a system that shot down unarmed youth in the streets, denied them jobs, and sought to cleanse the poor…
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Technology Widens the Rich-Poor Gap
10 Oct 2007
by Philip Emeagwali The Euro-Americans, who amassed wealth beyond their wildest dreams…
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Class Reunions and Race
10 Oct 2007
by Harold Bridgeman If you are Black, the reuniting of old classmates can also be accompanied by reopening of old wounds - a forced review of what racism has done to your chronological peers, and…
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Clarence Thomas, the 'Anti-Black'
10 Oct 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The most blatant and unashamed African American-hater on the U.S. Supreme Court - and probably on the national scene - is Clarence Thomas, a…
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2007 Lawn Jockey Award Wrap-Up
03 Oct 2007
by the CBC Monitor and Black Agenda Report Teams The Black Agenda Report and CBC Monitor teams talk about the lessons of Lawn Jockey 2007, and promise to be back next year.