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Bill Quigley
Locked Outside the Gates: The Struggle for Affordable Housing in New Orleans
02 Jan 2008
Locked Outside the Gates: The Struggle for Affordable Housing in New Orleans by Bill Quigley "Some young men were tasered right in front of the speaker's podium."
Kemet Mawakana
Vietnam
26 Mar 2008
Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider The U.N. Investigates American Racism
21 May 2008
by BAR Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley The United Nations is sending a special observer to investigate the role that racism plays in the ordinary life of the United States. With only three weeks, the special rapporteur will have a lot of ground to cover. And…
Bill Quigley
Inventing Terror at Home
06 Aug 2008
by Cynthia McKinney
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Pope Benedict Go Home
08 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 Perils of Racial Solidarity
21 May 2008
by Kevin Alexander Gray Is it really the duty of us all, as African Americans to keep quiet about the wars in Africa and Iraq, to shut up about the credit and housing squeezes that are swallowing the wealth of our communities, to be silent about police killings and the continued…
Bill Quigley
Making Real Change: Taking On Black Commercial Radio
21 May 2008
by BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon Black commercial radio station owners, like all other broadcasters, hold their licenses on the condition that they faithfully serve the public interest. But commercial black radio, whether owned by African Americans or not, is failing that test. …
Kemet Mawakana
For The Love of Money
02 Jul 2008
By Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. the Seven Foot Poet \Who gets paid? Who gets played? What will, or won't be done, and to whom - for the love of money? The Seven Foot Poet knows.
Bill Quigley
Barack Obama the War Monger
08 Aug 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Senator from Illinois masquerades as a "peace candidate" - and then proposes the Americans invade Pakistan, the only Muslim nation that has The Bomb. After the U.S. has propped up the military regime for generations, and stunted democracy in a country of 165…
Bill Quigley
Jena: Baby Steps Toward a New Mass Movement
03 Oct 2007
by BAR managing Editor Bruce Dixon In September more than 50,000 African Americans from around the nation converged at Jena, Louisiana. Was this the long-heralded…