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Bill Quigley
War on Drugs = War on Minorities
28 Mar 2007
by Arianna Huffington The author excoriates Democrats, especially "frontrunners" Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, for failing to even mention on their campaign websites the so-called War on Drugs - "a war that has morphed into a war on people of color." Of the quarter million people in state…
Bill Quigley
The Black Seminole Revolt: A Website Documents the Most Successful U.S. Slave Rebellion
28 Mar 2007
by Amy Sturgis Five years after Nat Turner's slave revolt was crushed in Virginia, Blacks allied with Florida Seminoles mounted a largely successful resistance to massive assaults by the United States Army. In years of struggle alongside the legendary Osceola and other chiefs, the Black…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Race is at the Heart of the Gonzalez Scandal
28 Mar 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid take great pains to paper over the racial aspects of the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. A number of the eight U.S. Attorneys summarily…
Bill Quigley
Imperial Sunset?
04 Apr 2007
by Aijaz Ahmad The sun is clearly setting on the American Empire - but that doesn't mean the would-be world rulers are going to give up easily. Although packing more arms than the rest of the planet, combined, the U.S. economic and political situation is in a dramatic spiral that cannot be…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Torture
04 Apr 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The American show trials are showing the world the American ass. Nobody believes the volumes of confessions by Guantanamo and other CIA prisons confessions - the equivalent of street cops clearing every case in the book by piling on…
Bill Quigley
Wasted People: Environmental Racism, a 20-Year Saga
04 Apr 2007
by Dr. Robert D. Bullard Back in 1987, the environmental racism movement won its first significant victory. Twenty years later, a cadre of Black and progressive scientists are calibrating the methodical harm that has been done to Black communities by a society that treats people of color as…
Bill Quigley
Fox Is At It Again: George Bush Is On ‘American Idol’
04 Apr 2007
by Rev. Reynard N. Blake, Jr. Culture is a weapon. In the American Idol show, we see corporate media wielding a huge sword in the service of - American dumbness. Apparently that's the state of mind that the ruling class prefers the lower classes to inhabit. Our deep-thinking contributor, Rev.…
Bill Quigley
Toussaint Louverture: A Free Man
04 Apr 2007
by Laurent Dubois How does a freed man become truly free - fully emancipated from the master? It's not so simple, even for a gifted leader such as Toussaint Louverture, the hero who led the Haitian people to the brink of freedom, but died in a nameless French grave. Scholar Laurent Dubois…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Fox News Rents the Congressional Black Caucus
04 Apr 2007
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Why would the Congressional Black Caucus co-sponsor presidential debates with Fox News? How much does it really cost to rent the CBC Institute? What else is for sale? How much worse than the rest of mainstream media is Fox News? And what…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza - Fascists of Color
14 Mar 2007
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley White supremacy, sensing the need of repackaging itself for consumption in polite company, partially fills the demand for racist bile by outsourcing to mercenary writers of color. Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D'Souza - of Filipino and Indian…