Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
GA Prison Inmates Stage 1-Day Peaceful Strike Today
09 Dec 2010
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon In an action which is unprecedented on several levels, black, brown and white inmates of Georgia's notorious state prison system are standing together for a…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why President Obama Won't Deliver On His Network Neutrality Promises
01 Dec 2010
After two years of President Barack Obama, where are we on network neutrality, and the rights of minority communities to fight the digital redlining of our communities which lies at the core of the
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Congressman Bobby Rush, the Color of Change and the Color of Truth
24 Nov 2010
In the next Congress, Chicago's Bobby Rush wants to the the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. While there is much to like and admire about the…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama's Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security
18 Nov 2010
After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are under attack. The current…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Barack Obama, Social Security and the Final Irrelevance of the Black Misleadership Class
10 Nov 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon With a black president leading the charge to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and social security in the name of “deficit reduction,” what is there left of…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
We Know Tea Party Repubs Are Scary. But Are Democrats in Congress Worth Defending At All?
27 Oct 2010
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Four years ago, the nation prepared for a congressional transition from Republican to Democratic rule. Rather than point to the scaaaary tea party hacks, let's…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit Against Arne Duncan's Mass Firings
07 Oct 2010
Back in June of 2009, BAR told the story of activist teachers who sued the Chicago Public Schools to reverse the firings of hundreds of committed, experienced, mostly black and female teachers in…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Corporate-School Reform VS Democracy Is Still the Issue in DC's November Election
23 Sep 2010
The mostly black District of Columbia has been run like a plantation, a colony for as long as anybody can recall. Habitual defiance of the democratic will of DC voters and residents is safe for…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
October 17 through 23 is 3rd Annual Congo Week
22 Sep 2010
Six million Congolese have died from starvation and war since 1997. The cause has not been, as Western media would have us believe, inscrutable African ethnic conflicts, but the West's hunger for…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
What's More Important For Black Leadership? Turning Off Fox News? Or Stopping the President's Cat Food Commission?
01 Sep 2010
While black political leaders and activists focus on turning off Fox News, and clownish disputes with Tea Partyers and the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, are they missing something more…