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Bill Quigley
Awash in Oil and Misery -- Equatorial Guinea's U.S.- Backed Dictatorship
06 Dec 2006
by Augustin Velloso Rich in both oil and misery, the tiny West African nation of Equatorial Guinea is the recipient of big-time US military aid and attention.
Paul Street
The People of Chicago VS Wal-Mart
25 Oct 2006
by Paul Street Big box retailing giant Wal-Mart has saturated the market in rural and suburban America. The only ground left for expansion is inner cities like New York and Chicago. Paul Street recounts the promises and machinations of Wal-Mart and the part local leaders, politicians…
Leutisha Stills , CBC Monitor
Burying the CBC's Mel Watt
01 Nov 2006
Representative Mel Watt of North Carolina is stepping down after 2 years as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. CBC Watch correspondent Leutisha Stills evaluates his tenure, and pronounces Watt dead on arrival. In looking back at how the Congressional Black Caucus has operated in…
Bill Quigley
Bruce's Beat: World AIDS Day, the Free Trade Way
06 Dec 2006
by Bruce Dixon How U.S. trade policy, which forbids local manufacture or low-cost distribution of life daving drugs condemns millions to blighted lives and early deaths in the developing world.
Bill Quigley
Resurrecting the Black Movement in the "Age of Obama"
10 Jan 2007
Like it or not, Barack Obama’s high profile political presence – and the reasons he achieved it – must be taken into account in any strategy to resurrect a Black movement for the 21st Century, says the author, an African American now posted at a South African think tank.
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Failure of the Black Misleadership Class
09 Feb 2006
By BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Does the black leadership class have ANY answers for the collapse of urban education, for mass incarceration, for the shortage of jobs, health care and housing and other problems that afflict the masses of black America? Or is how to get paid all they really…
Bill Quigley
The Handwriting is On the Wall: It's a Clinton-Obama Ticket in ‘08
31 Oct 2007
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon A year before the November 2008 presidential election, Democratic front runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are runaway winners in the contest that really matters, the wealth primary, the competition for campaign donations from our nation's moneyed elite…
Bill Quigley
Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald: Will Imprisoned Former Panther Receive Parole after 39 Years?
18 Jun 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Romaine “Chip” Fitzgerald, a former member of the Black Panther Party in southern California, has languished in prison since 1969, almost 40 years. Along with more than one hundred other California death row prisoners, his…
Bill Quigley
Why Does Barack Obama Hate My Family?
16 Jul 2008
by Kevin Alexander Gray People have a right to take personally Barack Obama's harangues against Black people's supposedly sub-par behavior. Every time Obama badmouths some aspect of African American mores or culture, fleets of media outlets megaphone the accusations, barbs so generalized they…
Bill Quigley
CNN’s Shallow Look at Black Life
30 Jul 2008
by Mel Reeves CNN went down a predictable path with its "Black in America" special, providing prime time play to "lots of self-flagellating black folks pointing the finger at their lesser-off brothers and sisters." Barack Obama has given the all-clear to wholesale badmouthing of poor African…