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  • by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
    Outraged Activists Revoke “Free Black Passes” for BET and the Minstrel Show Industry
    19 Sep 2007
    by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon
  • Bill Quigley
    Obama's Money Cartel: How Barack Obama Fronted for the Most Vicious Predators on Wall Street
    07 May 2008
    by Pam Martens The candidate that claims to be the only presidential contender who doesn't take money from lobbyists is in fact the biggest recipient of lobby-related contributions. Barack Obama rakes in millions from law firms serving the interests of Wall Street, including the financial…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Tough Questions for Clinton and Obama
    23 Apr 2008
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Columnist Kimberley correctly sees the candidates and the so-called debate moderators as co-enablers of lawlessness in the Bush administration. Not only did Stephanopoulos and Gibson fail to ask about George Bush's admission that he "…
  • Bill Quigley
    BET’s Offensive Content: Raunchier by the Minute
    23 Apr 2008
    How have I offended thee? Let me count the ways. In the case of Black Entertainment Television, offensive remarks and images are delivered with a frequency of sometimes once every half minute or so, according to a study commissioned by the organization Enough is Enough. BET is accused of…
  • by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
    Freedom Rider: Sean Bell and Wesley Snipes
    30 Apr 2008
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The ghastly record of police acquittals in the death of unarmed Blacks continues to unfold. In a verdict that "surprised" even the governor, a New York judge found three cops innocent of all charges in the 50-shot volley that killed Sean…
  • Bill Quigley
    How Criminal Injustice System Impacts Blacks
    30 Apr 2008
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The state with the harshest record for putting African Americans behind bars has become the first to pass a law that would assess the impact of new criminal justice legislation on minorities. Iowa imprisons Blacks at 13 times the rate of whites - more…
  • Bill Quigley
    Cynthia McKinney: Bell Verdict Shows Dred Scott Reality
    30 Apr 2008
    The Sean Bell verdict reminds former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the 1857 Dred Scott Decision, which declared that Blacks have no rights that a white man is bound to respect. In this case, three New York City cops failed to respect Bell's right to life; he died in a fusillade of 50…
  • Bill Quigley
    A Hungry Mob is an Angry Mob
    30 Apr 2008
    by John Maxwell While much of the developing world, and even consumers in the rich nations, fear growing food shortages and price hikes, Jamaicans seem "remarkably serene about the rapidly approaching food crisis." Forms of food rationing have already gone into effect at some U.S. chains, while…
  • Bill Quigley
    Extreme Prosecution: In Search of Black Enemies
    07 May 2008
    A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The United States has always shaped its criminal justice practices to suit and satisfy the imperative to smash African American resistance. When no organized resistance can be found, the system invents it. The Bush administration has outdone the post-…
  • Leutisha Stills
    Obama, Wright, and How the Post-Civil Rights Generation Will Rise to Power
    07 May 2008
    by Nikki Ayanna Stewart When the Black Freedom Movement withered away from disuse and neglect, it left a generation of enthusiastic young activists-to-be with unprecedented "access" to white dominated institutions, but no movement with which to affiliate. What's a determined mover-and-shaker…

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