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Bill Quigley
Remembering Harold Washington
28 Nov 2007
by Salim Muwakkil Twenty years ago this week, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died. The sudden passing of the city's first Black chief executive, "a peoples' intellectual and a seasoned political operator," soon led to a dissipation of the progressive movement he inspired, and reclamation of…
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Is Africa the Next Cold War Theater?
28 Nov 2007
by Nii OkaiJah Africa's failure to move towards creation of a "United States of Africa" - Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's vision when he assumed the presidency of newly independent Ghana, 50 years ago - has exposed the continent to "a new form of colonialism." The two main pincers threatening African…
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The San Francisco Eight: Torture in America
05 Dec 2007
From Democracy Now! George Bush didn't invent torture as public policy in America; he's simply attempting to codify and universalize what has long been routine police practice in the ghetto. Members of the San Francisco Eight, former Black Panthers charged in the killing of a police officer in…
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A Dumbed-Down Civilization
05 Dec 2007
by John Maxwell Since the invention of early stock markets, men with schemes have snookered men with money. The author, a veteran Jamaican journalist and activist, reminds us of a time when great fortunes were extracted from the English rich in foolish anticipation of monopoly markets and…
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We Are All Victims of the Katrina Housing Debacle
21 Nov 2007
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The Katrina catastrophe was a fast-forwarding of what race-based U.S. "market forces" have in store for Black America at-large: an exile to nowhere. Historically assigned to ghettos on the devalued sides of town, Blacks now find that capital covets…
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Rapper ‘Nas’: Dive Into My Dumpster and Say the Magic Word
31 Oct 2007
by BAR columnist Lizz Brown The hip hop artist Nas, styling himself as both a political scientist and sorcerer, theorizes that relentless repetition of the word "nigger" will somehow rob the term of its "power." Poof! - and the evil legacy of centuries melts away like the Wicked Witch of the…
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From Tanzania to Kansas and Back Again
31 Oct 2007
by Walter Bgoya The author's curiosity of mind and love of humanity have taken him in a grand circle, from colonial British east Africa, to Jim Crow-era America, through mid-Sixties U.S. movement politics, then back to an independent Tanzania at the center of African liberation struggles. In…
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When Israel Was Apartheid's Open Ally
07 Nov 2007
by Lenni Brenner
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No Hate Crimes No Peace
07 Nov 2007
by BAR columnist Lizz Brown The kidnapping, rape and torture of 20 year-old Megan Williams by two families of white West Virginians shocked the human sensibilities of all who learned of the ghastly crimes - with the exception of the local prosecutor. Despite the self-evident nature of their…
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New Orleans: Tranquility Lost
07 Nov 2007
by Jarvis DeBerry When crazy things happen to normal people, strange changes occur in their psyches. Tranquility - the feeling of security and inner peace - is shattered by unforeseen, overwhelming events, and may never return. The survivors of New Orleans are left largely alone to cope with a…