African America

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Are Black "Success Stories" Really Holding Us Back?
17 Apr 2014
Is it time to critically interrogate the black “success stories” of pro atheletes and near-billionaires? Should we be identifying with the Junior Bridgemans and Magic Johnsons or with their thousands…
Jane Biral
HBCUs and the United Negro College Fund: Another Grand Betrayal
20 Nov 2013
Misleadership and the Mission
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Who is Jeh Johnson, and Why Should Black People Be Hanging Our Heads in Shame?
23 Oct 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones.…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Roll Over & Die, or Shut Up & Sell Out: HBCUs & the Talented Tenth in the Obama Era
16 Oct 2013
When the Obama administration changed college loan rules in 2011, 28,000 students dropped out of HBCUs due to economic stress.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Who Are the Minions of War in the Black Caucus?
11 Sep 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford For the first time in five years, “the Black Caucus was treated like royalty, rather than a nuisance, as is usual, at the White House.” The reason: Obama needs their…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act
27 Jun 2013
The Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act didn't have to happen? Democrats, especially the black leadership class had more than a generation to exploit their moral and political…
The Real News Network
Supreme Court Kneecaps Voting Rights Act: The Real News Network Talks to Bruce A. Dixon
26 Jun 2013
Supreme Court kneecaps the voting rights act... BAR's Bruce A. Dixon on the Real News Network Real News Network, where you can find much more news updated every day at http://therealnews.com.
From Race Men to Debased Men, Obama at Morehouse, Arne Duncan at Morgan State
08 May 2013
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Back in the day, the “race men” and women, graduates of America's historically black colleges and universities imagined it was…
Akinyele Umoja
“When Other Folks Give Up Theirs…” Black Freedom and the Gun Control Debate
06 Feb 2013
Contrary to Congressman John Lewis’ revision of history, “the notion that the Civil Rights movement was exclusively nonviolent is a popular mythology.” In fact, “Some members of Lewis’s Student…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Shameless Vacuity of Susan Rice's Black Boosters
06 Dec 2012
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Africa doesn’t matter, U.S. wars don’t matter, nothing matters to the Black Misleadership Class except the sickly prestige of basking in the (distant) glow of power…