Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama's Race To The Top Drives Nationwide Wave of School Closings, Teacher Firings
10 Jan 2013
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Among Obama supporters, the gap between popular perceptions of the president's policies and the actual content of those policies is nowhere wider than in public…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Did Bloody Hands, Not Black Womanhood Sink Susan Rice Nomination?
20 Dec 2012
Did Susan Rice step down on her own or did she do so at the insistence of the White House. Did Republican oppostion doom her nomination, or was the Obama administration too afraid to have such a bare…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Hatership VS Black Leadership in the Age of Obama
13 Dec 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When you criticize black leadership, and especially the president from the left, the establishment has no answer, they call you “a hater.” But has our…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
I Remember Fred Hampton
05 Dec 2012
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Disconnecting the Dots on Israel-Palestine: Is Apartheid Only A Crime When Committed Against Blacks?
21 Nov 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most of the world supported the struggle of African Americans against Jim Crow during the Freedom Movement. Most of the progressive black leadership in this…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Doing Us Proud: Black America Has Lost Its Moral Compass
08 Nov 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When a Bush, a McCain, or a Romney condones corporate crimes against the rest of us, lies to us, tortures and imprisons at will and murders civilians at a…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Is This Really The Most Important Election Ever? If So, Then Where Are Our Issues?
31 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It's hard to see how an election is so darn important for black America when the candidates aren't talking about the issues. Which one is the candidate that…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker: Sista Courtier VS the Real Sista Citizen
24 Oct 2012
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Professor Melissa Harris-Perry has an MSNBC show and a byline in The Nation as “Sister Citizen.” But what would the output of a “sista citizen” look like? Would…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Ghetto Politics Has Outlived the Ghetto, and Still Holds All Of Us Back
17 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The class of cultural, business and political hacks who pass themselves off as “black leaders” never tire of celebrating the sixties. But they have nothing…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green
04 Oct 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I'll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, where the third party…