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Bill Quigley
CBC Monitor Report Card, October 2008
22 Oct 2008
by Leutisha Stills and the CBC Monitor Team
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Haiti and the Dilemma of Afrikan Sovereignty in the Americas
07 Jan 2009
by Ahati N. N. Toure The Haitian Revolution was but one of many Afrikan rebellions against "European dictatorship" in the Americas. "Afrikan revolutionary struggles convulsed nearly all areas of what was or was to become the United States from 1619 to the end of the American civil war in 1865."…
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Perversion of Justice: Gulag America
31 Dec 2008
by Rady Ananda The American Prison Gulag, already one-half Black, is becoming increasingly co-ed. "The US jailed one in 746 women in 2006, up from one in 100,000 back in 1925. Compared to other nations, the female portion of the prison population is highest in the US - at 9%." Melissa Mummert'…
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The Cold-Blooded Murder of Oscar Grant
25 Mar 2009
by Reiko Redmonde and Larry Everest The New Year in Oakland, California, brought in an old message to Black youth: they can be corralled and murdered for no reason at all, but that they are Black and young. Such is the rationale of state terror: the victim can do nothing to either invite or avoid…
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A Call to the Obama Administration for Action on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
25 Mar 2009
by Prof. Vernellia R. Randall In refusing to allow the U.S. to take part in next month's international gathering on racism, dubbed Durban II, the first Black president will "take the same action as his all-white predecessors: refuse to engage and to be a leader in the elimination of racism." Much…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Fronts for White Supremacy with Boycott of Durban Conference on Racism
25 Mar 2009
To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player above. to download an MP3 copy for broadcast or personal use, click here. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The injustices of the current world order are derived from those of the old order - which was based on…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Opposing Obama
25 Mar 2009
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley This weekend's pitifully small peace demonstration in the nation's capitol reveals a near-totally demobilized U.S. Left mired in such timidity and delusion, activists fear to mention Barack Obama's name when denouncing the wars he so…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Obama Buys Allies Where the U.S. Has No Friends
25 Mar 2009
To hear this Black Agenda Radio commentary, click the flash player above. to download an MP3 copy for broadcast or personal use, click here. A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford "The U.S. plans to double the Afghan army and police, to 400,000 men, through the sheer magnetic pull…
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
War-Talk and Speculation Drove Oil Prices Skyward
17 Sep 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford As the economy approaches rock-bottom - wherever that is - the public should remember who brought about the "cascade of catastrophes." The recent oil price explosion was caused by Big Capital speculators and "greatly accelerated" by American and…
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“Amazing Self-Correction”: Reflections on Barack Obama and the Perverse Racial Politics of the Post
17 Sep 2008
by Paul Street The closer Barack Obama gets to the White House, the quicker some white folks are to declare that the United States is a "self-correcting" nation that is miraculously curing itself of racism. They are encouraged by Obama, himself, who "has shown a disturbing propensity to see the…