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Bill Quigley
Detroit Youth Organize: ‘We Will Be the Change’
17 Oct 2007
by Grace Lee Boggs Young people in the Blackest major city in the nation are organizing to make Detroit fit and safe for their dreams. Under the auspices of the organization Detroit City of Hope, but creating and answering to their own leadership, youth are surveying their surroundings with the…
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Cincinnati’s in a World of Trouble, But All the Rulers Want is a New Jail
10 Oct 2007
by Dan La Botz Six years ago, Cincinnati's Black neighborhoods exploded in revolt against a system that shot down unarmed youth in the streets, denied them jobs, and sought to cleanse the poor from whole sections of the city - a state of affairs that is replicated across the width and breadth…
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Technology Widens the Rich-Poor Gap
10 Oct 2007
by Philip Emeagwali The Euro-Americans, who amassed wealth beyond their wildest dreams through violent plunder of the rest of the world's human and natural resources, continue the process…
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Class Reunions and Race
10 Oct 2007
by Harold Bridgeman If you are Black, the reuniting of old classmates can also be accompanied by reopening of old wounds - a forced review of what racism has done to your chronological peers, and to yourself. The passage of time puts in graphic relief the accumulated assaults on the people that…
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Clarence Thomas, the 'Anti-Black'
10 Oct 2007
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The most blatant and unashamed African American-hater on the U.S. Supreme Court - and probably on the national scene - is Clarence Thomas, a psychologically damaged ally of the worst sections of the white ruling class. Thomas is often described…
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The Difference Between Black Brazil and Black U.S.
17 Oct 2007
by BAR contributing editor Italo Ramos African Americans sometimes embarrass themselves, often without know it, by assuming that others from the Diaspora see the world in the same way as themselves. Blacks from other nations are also frequently puzzled and confused by U.S. Black behavior,…
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Pentagon Plans 100-Year Global War in the Cities
17 Oct 2007
by Nick Turse Weapons that take out one floor of a city building, but leave the structure standing. Robot spies that look like dragonflies that can fly into your apartment to scope its contents. Intensity sound transmitters - already tentatively deployed in the United States - to cause…
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‘White’ Values vs. ‘Black’ Values
12 Dec 2007
by Khalil G. Muhammad Bill Cosby's hectoring lectures on Black "responsibility" and morals are nothing new. "The ‘Cosby' role at the start of Jim Crow was first played by Booker T. Washington" - and lots of white folks loved him for it. Later, W.E.B. Bois was derided by his white social science…
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Bush and Nagin to Black New Orleans Dispossessed: Merry Xmas! Now Get Lost.
12 Dec 2007
A short video by the Coalition to Stop Demolition New Orleans' public housing stock largely survived Katrina, infuriating the privatizers that control government policy at all levels in the United States. How could the ethnic and class cleansing of the city proceed to its ultimate conclusion…
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Comrade George Jackson Warned Us
19 Dec 2007
by Chaka The American Prison Gulag is unique on the planet, both in size and racial composition. The martyred George Jackson (1941-1971) saw American fascism as the inevitable product "of genocidal extermination of indigenous peoples and genocidal enslavement of Afrikans." The logic of…