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Bill Quigley
Down Prison Road
28 Apr 2010
by David Bacon The scenery was bleak on the recent “March for California's Future.” Poor towns kept alive only through the incarceration of others lined the road through the San Joaquin Valley, home to “a prison population of 67,059 human beings incarcerated in 13 institutions, guarded by another…
Bill Quigley
What If the Tea Party Were Black?
28 Apr 2010
by Tim Wise Polite white society ponders the nature of the Tea Party “movement,” applauding, ignoring or deriding their fellow Euro-Americans but seldom considering them prime candidates for suppression by deadly force and endless imprisonment. But what if the rowdy rabble were Black? To ask the…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald, Political Prisoner and Former Panther on Hunger Strike in California's Corcoran Prison
28 Apr 2010
In the more than 40 years that former Black Panther Romaine "Chip" has been imprisoned in California he has neither complained nor drawn attention to himself. He has counseled other prisoners against violence and bitterness. But now, after an extended period of being denied…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
New Arizona Law Criminalizes "Being While Brown"
28 Apr 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Arizona has virtually criminalized “being” while brown. Its new racist laws require police to profile and stop anyone who “looks like” an undocumented immigrant. Even police chiefs across the country, who know they cannot police communities that won't talk to…
Bill Quigley
Debunking the Myth of a Color-Blind France
05 May 2010
by Sounia Johnson Previous generations of African Americans sought greater freedom in France – and some thought they found it. But for Frances growing African and Muslim minority, “applying for a job with Arab-sounding name such as Mustafa, Mohammed, Nadia or Fatima remains a challenge.”
Bill Quigley
Repudiating an Apologist: Skip Gates’ "End the Slavery Blame-Game" Nonsense
05 May 2010
by Dr. Ron Daniels Black people have paid the price for every step in Henry Louis Gates' ascent into the halls of power and prestige. The Harvard professor “has allowed himself to become an apologist for peoples and nations who do not want to accept responsibility for the greatest transgression…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Obama’s Oil Slick
05 May 2010
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley President Obama cannot avoid political responsibility for the latest disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, or the future catastrophes that will inevitable flow from his acquiescence to Big Oil. “Liberals who ordinarily sneer at Sarah Palin and others…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Putting Nukes In A Poor Black GA Town: If A Black President Does It, Is It Still Environmental Racism?
05 May 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In the weeks since President Obama announced $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors next to an existing pair of nukes in mostly black Burke County, GA, the inconvenient questions, unanswered and mostly unasked, continue to pile up.…
Cecil Brown
Goodbye, White Friends!: White People Aren't Into Black People Anymore
05 May 2010
by Cecil Brown Unrequited phone calls from white used-to-be friends are signs of the times. The phenomenon seems to indicate that the “post-racial” world we are told looms so near, will be one in which Blacks and whites rarely become – or remain – friends at all, at least not friends of the…
Sikivu Hutchinson
The Usual Suspects: Arizona and the Black/Latino Divide
05 May 2010
by Sikivu Hutchinson Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr. says Arizona’s anti-immigrant legislation is the new “Selma,” but there is also “the perception that Latino organizations don’t support African American activism around such issues as racial profiling and police brutality.” Black America must face the…