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Bill Quigley
Rev. Jackson’s Not Down for the Count, Yet
16 Jul 2008
by Mel Reeves Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., an early supporter of Barack Obama, is an object of sheer hatred among some Obamites since his indelicate remarks centered on the Senator's scrotum. One young Black guest columnist for HuffingtonPost.com could not contain her contempt. In an article titled…
Bill Quigley
Saddam Takes The Fall
03 Jan 2007
by Margaret Kimberley BAR’s Editor and Senior Columnist warns future dictators to avoid ‘Faustian bargains’ with the United States. Saddam Hussein killed whoever the Americans wanted. It earned him a hangman’s noose.
Paul Street
Obama's Audacious Deference to Power
31 Jan 2007
Barack Obama's latest book reveals the presidential aspirant to be a rank racial accommodationist and political opportunist. The Illinois Senator urges empathy for those in power, labels critics on the Left cranks and zealots, and whitewashes America's past and present crimes. In the final…
Paul Street
The Pale Reflection: Barack Obama, MLK and the Meaning of the Black Revolution
21 Mar 2007
by Paul Street In his "Empire and Inequality Report," the author compares the politics of Barack Obama, who styles himself a post-civil rights era "Joshua," to those of Martin Luther King, the most prominent member of what Obama calls the "Moses Generation." There is no resemblance whatsoever…
Kemet Mawakana
Grand Jury Original Indictment
02 Apr 2008
Kemit 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…
Kemet Mawakana
The Campaign, (Written in Four Parts – Part 1)
09 Apr 2008
by Kemit 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 “…
Bill Quigley
Like A Lap Dog
21 May 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) When is an exalted honoree a dishonored servant? When is one sitting high actually stooping low? The Seven Foot Poet has the answer. Could it be when the honored is actually like... like a lap dog? Click the link…
Kemet Mawakana
Scholar Warrior
28 May 2008
by Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) Born in 1731 the son of a slave, Benjamin Banneker was a free African American, a self-taught clock maker, astronomer, and mathematician. He played a major role in the boundary surveys and initial layout of the nation's capital, and in…
Kemet Mawakana
Indigo Blues
04 Jun 2008
by Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) Is it science fiction? Is it past prediction? He never confuses, our poet, he muses.
Bill Quigley
Only In America
18 Jun 2008
by Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) In today's America, where we are about to, or perhaps already have "transcended race", what does too black, too militant, too uncompromising look like. The Seven Foot Poet explores this question.