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Bill Quigley
Big Bling, Blood Diamonds & Russell Simmons
20 Dec 2006
by Mr. Davey D Entertainment mogul Russell Simmons has teamed up with the South Africa-based De Beers mining giant to defend the diamond trade. Hip hop journalist Davey D explores the contradictions in Simmons' behavior – and that of the “bling-bling” generation.
Bill Quigley
1,000 Words
17 Jan 2007
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
24 Jan 2007
by Milton Allimadi Part One: In this first installment of Allimadi’s groundbreaking book, the author exposes the racism rampant among American newspaper reporters assigned to cover Africa in the Fifties and Sixties. Their bigotry and lack of professionalism – and that of their editors and…
Bill Quigley
Bulldozing New Orleans
03 Jan 2007
by Bill Quigley Why is HUD using tens of millions in Katrina money to bulldoze 4,534 public housing apartments in New Orleans at a higher cost than it would take to repair and open them?
Bill Quigley
Heroic Minds: All the Great Ones Have Been Anti-Imperialist
17 Jan 2007
by Jonathan Scott The real titans of American literature were opposed to U.S. imperial aggressions – and the ‘founding authors’ of the culture were African American. Scott calls for a new national educational curriculum for a post-imperialist United States, and abolition of summer…
John Maxwell
Digging Down Jamaica
24 Jan 2007
by John Maxwell Jamaica may one day face the same fate as tiny Nauru, sinking into the sea after its minerals have been ruthlessly extracted by multinational corporations. Already, once verdant Jamaica confronts silting rivers, poisoned water supplies, pollution-induced illness,…
Bill Quigley
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
31 Jan 2007
by Kevin Alexander Gray If impeachment is ‘off the table,' then so is accountability for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. At the very least, Bush hench-persons such as Condoleezza Rice should be held up for scorn and ridicule for the administration's crimes against humanity and international…
Bill Quigley
The Hearts of Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
31 Jan 2007
Part Two by Milton Allimadi American and British media and literature contributed mightily to the defamation of Africans - an historical crime that has conditioned Western audiences to the deaths of millions. Beginning with the Greek, Herodotus, and continuing in the pages of The New…
Bill Quigley
The Letters Column
07 Feb 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford Obama-Mania vs. The Issues The Russell and Andy Show Are Anti-War Democrats Serious?
Bill Quigley
A Valley of Buzzwords: Obama’s Soulless Book
07 Feb 2007
by Kevin Alexander Gray Somebody needs to tell the presidential candidate: his book "has no soul." Constantly sacrificing principle on the altar of ‘shared values,' Obama genuflects to Ronald Reagan, but seems to have "not a clue" as to the struggles of Sixties civil rights…