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Bill Quigley
Cynthia McKinney Confronts Corporate Media Malice in Court
01 Aug 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The American judicial system is not the place to seek Black liberation or redress, but it can serve to put our grievances on the record. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a corporate rag if there ever was one, has for many years defamed, libeled and…
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The Black Sites: A Rare Look Inside the CIA's Secret Interrogation Program
08 Aug 2007
by Jane Mayer The CIA went into an intensive learning curve when 9/11 hit. They had to learn how to torture, to extract information for the politicians who needed to explain and finance their existence. Psychiatrists were employed, to break the will of fragile human beings in secret CIA…
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Gentle Hands: Moving Beyond Black and White
18 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Richard O'Connor An Irishman fell in love with a Black woman, and then found that he had also become socially Black in the United States. Apparently, crossing the racial privilege line is a cardinal sin in the U.S. of muthafuckin' A, even if you are nominally white.…
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Just Another Dead Nigger!
25 Jul 2007
by Wise Intelligent The NAACP and other Black organizations pretend to be fighting the racist enemy by waging war on the word "nigger," as expressed by Black people, themselves. It is a purely diversionary campaign, calculated to avoid confrontation with Power. Ceremoniously, the NAACP puts "…
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Thoughts on Virginia Tech and Racism
25 Jul 2007
by BAR contributing editor Jeanette M. Pollard The Virginia Tech massacre of three months ago remains the subject of task force investigations. But none appear to be examining the role that race played in fertilizing the killing grounds. Two women of color, educators, recognized that something…
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The Mean Streets of…Greenfield? Or, Liberal Massachusetts: The Funeral Was Tuesday
25 Jul 2007
by BAR Contributing Editor Richard O'Connor Massachusetts has a reputation as one of the most "liberal" states in the nation, whatever that means. In the western "Hill Towns" of the state, however, no evidence exists to back up the myth: it might as well be hillbilly country. The mere presence…
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The Troubled Birth of the National Civil Rights Museum
01 Aug 2007
by The Honorable D'Army Bailey, BAR contributing editor The man who rescued Memphis' Lorraine Motel, site of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, from decline and ultimate sale to developers, found in the end that Black intrigue would sully the entire project. The plan was to turn the motel…
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Immigration and Military Enlistment: The Pentagon's Push for the DREAM Act Heats Up
01 Aug 2007
by Jorge Mariscal About 8,000 permanent resident aliens already enlist in the U.S. military every year, an influx that partially offsets the dramatic drop in Black recruitment since George Bush began his wars. The Pentagon hopes to swell these ranks through a program with the acronym…
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Welcome to Richistan, USA
01 Aug 2007
by Paul Harris U.S. presidents are fond of beginning their speeches with the phrase, "My fellow Americans." However, in recent decades, and especially since George W. Bush seized the White House, the super-rich have created a "parallel world" almost totally divorced from their fellow citizens.…
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2007 Lawn Jockey Award Wrap-Up
03 Oct 2007
by the CBC Monitor and Black Agenda Report Teams The Black Agenda Report and CBC Monitor teams talk about the lessons of Lawn Jockey 2007, and promise to be back next year.