Bill Quigley

Bill Quigley
‘White’ Values vs. ‘Black’ Values
12 Dec 2007
by Khalil G. Muhammad Bill Cosby's hectoring lectures on Black "responsibility" and morals are nothing new. "The ‘Cosby' role at the start of Jim Crow was first played by Booker T. Washington" -…
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There’s No Such Thing as a Black KKK
05 Dec 2007
by BAR contributing editor Mel Reeves Blacks that bash the rest of The Race are richly rewarded, even - or maybe especially - when their slanders are blatant nonsense. So it is with Jason…
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When NOT to Vote Black (at least in Memphis)
05 Dec 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Voting Rights Act was passed 42 years ago, but African Americans still have an uneven record of voting their interests - and their own political…
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Don’t Blame Blacks for the Crisis of Capital
05 Dec 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford How could the bursting U.S. sub-prime housing bubble cause chaos and confusion in world financial markets? By itself, it couldn't. What the predatory…
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HUD Sends New Orleans Bulldozers and $400,000 Apartments for the Holidays
05 Dec 2007
by Bill Quigley The criminal conspiracy against Black New Orleans unfolds without pause, as the federal government prepares to demolish public housing in the city before Christmas. Gentrification…
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The San Francisco Eight: Torture in America
05 Dec 2007
From Democracy Now! George Bush didn't invent torture as public policy in America; he's simply attempting to codify and universalize what has long been routine police practice in the ghetto.…
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A Dumbed-Down Civilization
05 Dec 2007
by John Maxwell Since the invention of early stock markets, men with schemes have snookered men with money. The author, a veteran Jamaican journalist and activist, reminds us of a time when great…
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U.S-Instigated War Brings Mass Death to Somalia
28 Nov 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The United States remains, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world," through its own wars of aggression and…
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Don Imus: I Ain't Forgivin' and Forgettin' – The Dec 3rd ‘Moment of Silence’
28 Nov 2007
by Min. Paul Scott No matter what Rev. Al Sharpton says, Don Imus has not - and never will - be absolved of his verbal crimes against Black people. The racist trash-talker returns to the…
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Remembering Harold Washington
28 Nov 2007
by Salim Muwakkil Twenty years ago this week, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died. The sudden passing of the city's first Black chief executive, "a peoples' intellectual and a seasoned political…