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Bill Quigley
Make Hip Hop, Not War: The Tour
18 Apr 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford ‘It's time for the streets to rise up," says Rev. Lennox Yearwood, head of the Hip Hop Caucus, whose "Make Hip Hop, Not War" tour is traversing the country. The tour showcases the best political elements of Black youth culture - the "conscious" rap that huge…
Mark P. Fancher
African Women, White Men, Sex and Don Imus
18 Apr 2007
by Mark P. Fancher The notion that Don Imus was somehow inspired by African American culture to casually refer to Black female athletes as "nappy-headed hoes" amounts to an inversion of history. White racism and male chauvinism shaped the image of Black females - and males. For centuries, this…
Bill Quigley
Caucasian Please! America’s True Double Standard for Misogyny and Racism
18 Apr 2007
by Dr. Edward Rhymes Despite the firing of Don Imus, corporate media continue to attempt to divert attention from long-established institutional sexism, in order to depict Black youth culture as the vector of the disease. The American reality is one of pervasive celebration of violence, in general…
Bill Quigley
The Unbearable Whiteness of Viewing Tween-Teen Film
12 Sep 2007
by Sikivu Hutchinson Black females, young and older, are socially stigmatized by fictitious narratives that depict them as lascivious sex-pots. In the toy, movie and video game industry, this oppression is amplified, creating the same conditions that 1954 social researchers convinced the U.S.…
Kemet Mawakana
Poetry from Kemit Mawakana
20 Feb 2008
aka "The Seven-Foot Poet" Black Agenda Report introduces to these pages our resident poet, Kehmit Mawakana, also known as the "Seven-Foot Poet." An acclaimed spoken word artist and author, Mawakana explores the totality of African/human existence from his Washington, DC-based vantage point - like…
Bill Quigley
Somalia Victimized by U.S., Ethiopia and Their Warlord Allies
04 Jan 2007
by BAR Executive Editor Glen Ford America's rulers imagine that Arabs and Africans understand only the language of force, and believe themselves entitled to remake the world with armed violence, have purchased allies in the Ethiopian government, and some Somali warlords to do their bidding in…
Bill Quigley
Gangster Capitalism and the Third Maroon War
20 Nov 2006
From the Frying Pan Into the Red Mud Maroons, for those unacquainted with the history of the New World, were escaped slaves who took refuge in the roadless countrysides and mountains of the Carribean, Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas, and offered armed resistance to those…
Bill Quigley
New Orleans: The Right to Return Eighteen Months after Katrina
28 Feb 2007
by Bill Quigley A year and a half after Katrina, much of New Orleans remains in ruins, with government at all levels actively preventing reconstruction that would allow hundreds of thousands of exiles to return. Locals refer to the devastation as having "the Grand Canyon effect" - when you…
Bill Quigley
Fighting for the Right to Learn: The Public Education Experiment in New Orleans
08 Aug 2007
by Bill Quigley Corporate America saw opportunity in the death of 1,000 or more people in New Orleans, and the exile of hundreds of thousands. Entrenched in the Bush administration was a private school lobby that was itching to find an urban environment to try out their experiment. It was New…
Bill Quigley
HUD Sends New Orleans Bulldozers and $400,000 Apartments for the Holidays
05 Dec 2007
by Bill Quigley The criminal conspiracy against Black New Orleans unfolds without pause, as the federal government prepares to demolish public housing in the city before Christmas. Gentrification proceeds at breakneck speed, fueled by millions of public dollars in giveaways to well-connected…