Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
"D- Ridin' Obama:" Boondocks Creator Aaron McGruder Throws a Bomb
21 Apr 2010
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Black Business Class Leadership and the Crisis of Gentrification
21 Apr 2010
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why is the only model of inner city economic development that anybody has tried in living memory amount to moving poorer…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
When "Reforming Education" Means Destroying Communities
07 Apr 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The summary firing of tens or hundreds of thousands of inner city public school teachers in the Obama administration's race to privatize education will wreak…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Shirley Franklin and the Digital Divide: Fronting For Telecoms At TheRoot.Com
31 Mar 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A March 30 article at The Root lauded former Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin for her alleged efforts to bridge the digital divide. But why did its author Kris…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama Democrats VS Tea Party Republicans: A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform
25 Mar 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon There are real fights and there are fake fights, engineered to distract attention away from the real deal. The shouting match between Obama's Dems and the Tea…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Amiri Baraka on Carlos Moore: Five Decades in the Garbage Can of History
25 Mar 2010
Poet, activist and esteemed elder Amiri Baraka was one of those who showed up in Harlem last month to greet a delegation of Cuban visitors. He took the occasion to express profound reservations…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
What Happens When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce "Trains" Black Elected Officials?
17 Mar 2010
The hard right US Chamber of Commerce is among the principal lobbying and propaganda tentacles of America's corporate ruling class. Among much else, it emphatically denies the existence of man-made…