Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
Obama and the Hunger for a Black President
23 May 2007
by Rudolph Lewis Black "leadership" shrinks from its task, avoiding at all costs the consequences of true leadership: "poverty, imprisonment, flight, assassination." As a class, these…
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Letter to Black America on Palestinian Rights
23 May 2007
March and Rally Set for June 10 Twenty-two African American notables have issued on open letter demanding that Blacks break the silence "on the injustices faced by the Palestinian people resulting…
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Sonia On My Mind
23 May 2007
by Askia Muhammad Veteran journalist and man-of-words-and-images Askia Muhammad muses on the impact of poetess Sonia Sanchez, "This Call and Respond Voice of reasonable Black Magic." The author…
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Benton Harbor on the Brink: Michigan Town Still Boiling
23 May 2007
by Kari Lydersen The mostly African American town of Benton Harbor, Michigan, a Black island in a hostile sea, is under siege by moneyed interests seeking to claim the small city's most valuable…
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How America’s Immigrants Became White
16 May 2007
by Seth Sandronsky The United States has historically been, in the actual words of the original quotation, a "melting pot for all the races of Europe...." In reality, the evolving process was…
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‘The Ballot or the Bullet’
16 May 2007
by Malcolm X May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965 Malcolm's "The Bullet or the Ballot" speech, delivered during the interval between his separation from the Nation of Islam and his pilgrimage to…
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Zimbabwe: Once Again, No Easy Victories
16 May 2007
by Joseph Jordan, PhD The author, who as a youth was among the millions of African Americans that hailed revolutionary leader Robert Mugabe as a hero, says Blacks are now required "to speak out…
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The Democrats’ Misleading Iraq Funding Provisions: They're Not Really Benchmarks
16 May 2007
by David Swanson Democratic congressional leadership has effectively taken ownership of the Iraq war, waging politically theatrical battles over phony "benchmarks" that the Bush administration…
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Four US Reps for Cheney Impeachment
16 May 2007
by Matthew Cardinale Three congresspersons, two of them Black, have joined Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich in calling for impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. However,…
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Black Labor Tackles The Big Mission: ‘Dismantle the Corporate Agenda’
16 May 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford African American unionists gather in Chicago later this month to devise…