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Bill Quigley
The Great Xmas Eve Black-Seminole Victory
19 Dec 2007
by William Loren Katz In the long history of U.S. wars of annihilation and racial subjugation, the Black and Seminole resistance shines as a glorious example of solidarity between courageous peoples. The Seminole, largely comprised of Native Americans previously displaced by savage ethnic…
Bill Quigley
The Racist Roots of the Anti-Immigration Movement
19 Dec 2007
by Lee Cokorinos It is true that growing immigrant populations are transforming the United States, but one ancient aspect of Americana remains intact: racial supremacist dreams of a "white" nation. The notion that the United States was and should forever be a White Man's Country - once the…
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The "War on Terror" and Africa’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
02 Jan 2008
by Sadia Ali Aden Somalia has been reduced to a killing field in the wake of the U.S.-instigated Ethiopian invasion of that country. Journalists are shot down to conceal the wholesale killings and displacements of women, children and the elderly by indiscriminant Ethiopian fire, marauding…
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Is a Black President Ready for America?
09 Jan 2008
by Min. Paul Scott Let's flip the script and reverse the question, Is America ready for a Black president? Being chief executive of a superpower is a difficult job, with unimaginable pressures. Has pervasive racism in the United States prepared any Black person for the experience of wielding…
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Dropping Out of Electoral College
09 Jan 2008
by Martha Biondi The Electoral College, the Constitutionally-mandated mechanism that relentlessly relegates a growing number of states and their citizens to "spectators" in national elections, may soon be circumvented. Maryland has become the first state to enact a law that would award all of a…
Bill Quigley
Dropping Out of Electoral College
09 Jan 2008
by Martha Biondi The Electoral College, the Constitutionally-mandated mechanism that relentlessly relegates a growing number of states and their citizens to "spectators" in national elections, may soon be circumvented. Maryland has become the first state to enact a law that would award all of a…
Bill Quigley
Barack, Hillary, and the Sinister Nothingness of “Change”
09 Jan 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford When politicians offer nothing, and the people demand nothing, then the powers-that-be are free to continue doing whatever they choose. The death knell of participatory politics can often be a very noisy, celebratory affair - such as we have witnessed in the…
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Vick Behind Bars
12 Dec 2007
by Dave Zirin Michael Vick haters will never be satisfied - and neither was the judge who sentenced the football star to nearly twice the prison time recommended by the prosecution. Google, the great online people-gatherer, pops up ads for "piss on Vick" and "neuter Vick" t-shirts whenever one…
Bill Quigley
Wal-Mart: Evil At Any Price
12 Dec 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The conventional wisdom is that Wal-Mart's low prices and low wages are a simple matter of math - that one leads inevitably to the other. Unions and progressive researchers have repeatedly shown, however, that even the most marginal increases in…
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Don Imus: I Ain't Forgivin' and Forgettin' – The Dec 3rd ‘Moment of Silence’
28 Nov 2007
by Min. Paul Scott No matter what Rev. Al Sharpton says, Don Imus has not - and never will - be absolved of his verbal crimes against Black people. The racist trash-talker returns to the airwaves via ABC Radio, on December 3, following a "nine month, 20 million dollar paid vacation courtesy of…