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Bill Quigley
Black Ivy Leaguer: Rev. Wright Speaks Truth
07 May 2008
by Shannon Prince Some supporters of Barack Obama have seized the occasion of the confrontation with Rev. Jeremiah Wright to air a litany of old grievances. In an op-ed article for Newsday, Michael Meyers, head of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, who despises anything that smacks of Black…
Bill Quigley
Sacred Cows, Black Jesus and Civil Religion
02 Apr 2008
by Mel Reeves The American Civil Religion, by definition both racial and political, is the core set of beliefs, symbols and rituals that justify white past conduct in North America and provide a kind of theological pre-clearance for future behavior by American whites in the world. As the author…
Bill Quigley
Congo: How Rich Whites Caused Five Million Blacks to Die
02 Apr 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford How many Congolese must die to illuminate one hand-held computer game? Nobody knows, but five million have already been slaughtered in the greatest mineral extraction grab in the history of the planet. The best known mining companies and…
Bill Quigley
Jonathan Alter: Liberal Racist, Obama Fan
02 Apr 2008
by Paul Street On of the most obnoxious human types on the planet is the "victim-blaming racist...who cloaks his racially offensive comments in outwardly sensitive prose." That's how anti-racist writer and scholar Paul Street describes Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, who claims to have inherited…
Bill Quigley
Tear Down the Ghetto: The Price is Wrong
09 Apr 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The global capitalist system is way past recession, beyond old definitions of depression; it has lost all cohesion and is, essentially, beyond salvaging. Unable to produce anything but horrific and perfectly predictable bubbles, incapable of tallying up its…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Pope Benedict Go Home
09 Apr 2008
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley His beneficence he ain't. Pope Benedict XVI, a former Hitler Youth whose persona fits better with his given name, Joseph Ratzinger, transports his malevolent, rightwing presence to the United States next which, where he will doubtless do…
Bill Quigley
The Poor Die Quicker
09 Apr 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The consequences of vast and growing U.S. economic disparities are fatal for the poor - and getting worse. In the space of 20 years, affluent Americans have increased their longevity relative to the poor, and may have reaped most of the benefits of the…
Bill Quigley
Migrant Detention in South Texas
09 Apr 2008
by Greg Moses Migrant detainees exist in a kind of limbo. Although subject to both criminal and civil penalties of the United States, and the objects of fierce international tensions, migrant detainees in the U.S. find themselves outside "the letter and the spirit of international law." Often…
Bill Quigley
Remembering Paul Robeson (April 9, 1998 – January 23, 1976)
09 Apr 2008
A Jazz & Justice Tribute by Dr. Jared Ball Paul Robeson was the son of an escaped slave, who became an all-American athlete, and one of the first three black graduates of Columbia University Law School. After discovering that he would only be allowed to research the cases white lawyers…
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Tavis Smiley Seeks Relief from Crazed Obamites
16 Apr 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Tavis Smiley never wanted to pick a fight with Barack Obama. In point of fact, it is not in the media entrepreneur's nature to pick fights with persons of power or popularity. But Obama's zealots do not accept anything less than abject, unqualified loyalty to…