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Bill Quigley
Commerce is Killing the Spirit of Hip-Hop
07 Mar 2007
by Davey D Most young African Americans are dissatisfied with the daily menu of anti-social hip-hop music force-fed to the culture by huge corporations. Yet the "ultimate minstrel show," a product consumed mainly by young whites, is still deemed symptomatic of some peculiar Black pathology.…
Bill Quigley
Pentagon High Crimes: A Retired Lt. Colonel Speaks Out
07 Mar 2007
by David Swanson George Bush "seems like the Paris Hilton of politics," but Dick Cheney appears to take "world domination seriously." So seriously, according to a retired officer who worked at the Pentagon's Near East Policy Directorate, Cheney and his minions in the administration got…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Crazy, Greedy White Men
07 Mar 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The Bush administration is a putrid swamp of career criminals, who operate with impunity both inside and outside the boundaries of the executive branch of government. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld camps in offices just…
Paul Street
Prosecuting Jim Crow’s Ghosts: The Racist ‘Past’ Lives
07 Mar 2007
by Paul Street The FBI, which once covered up anti-Black crimes committed by its racist "informants" in the Deep South - and its own crimes against activists in the Black Freedom Movement - now vows to leave no stone unturned in a review of 100 cold-case murders in Dixie. Although justice…
Bill Quigley
FBI Hunts the Dead: Can a Deceased Black Panther Ever Rest in Peace?
07 Mar 2007
by Soffiyah Elijah The man the FBI would have arrested as the ninth member of the Panther Eight, on charges of killing a San Francisco policeman in 1971, is dead. But the Bureau won't let John Bowman rest in piece. In a macabre quest to "flip" the already-deceased, agents interrogated family…
Jerry G. Watts
What Use Are Black Mayors - An Open Letter to the Natl Conference of Black Political Scientists
12 Mar 2007
By Jerry G. Watts Exactly what do the poor in Atlanta, Washington DC, Charlotte, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Detroit and other cities have to show for having elected African Americans to City Hall? What Use Are Black Mayors? An Open Letter to the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Top Ten Questions for Would Be Presidents
28 Feb 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley Although only Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, among Democratic presidential hopefuls, can rightfully claim to be a progressive, the rest of the pack will eventually have to face scrutiny from the party's grassroots "base." Under no…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Does the Congressional Black Caucus Really Represent Black America? And What Should We Do About It?
07 Feb 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon There is a widening divide in Black America - but not among the people, who continue to hold dear the progressive values of racial, social and economic justice, and peace. Rather, the growing gap exists between the aspirations of the masses of African…
Bill Quigley
1,000 Words
03 Jan 2007
Bill Quigley
1,000 Words
10 Jan 2007