Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
In the 21st Century, It's Black America VS Corporate America
10 Mar 2010
If the problem of the twentieth century was the color line, the problem of the twenty-first is resisting the extension of corporate rule. While the color line has been eased or erased for…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama's Georgia Nukes Selectively Penalize Black Communities. Is That Environmental Racism?
03 Mar 2010
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Can a black president be guilty of environmental racism? President Obama's new proposed nukes are in one of the poorest areas east of the Mississippi. Burke…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Looking Beyond Black Mecca and the Failure of the Black Misleadership Class
24 Feb 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Black Mecca is definitely over. While the black business elite celebrated its own rule in Atlanta for a generation, Georgia climbed to 4th among the states…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Gentrification, Demolishing the Projects and the Dispersal of Poor Urban Black Communities.
17 Feb 2010
A Black Agenda Interview by Bruce A. Dixon In urban Black America, stable communities are the exception rather than the rule. It's a fact of black life in the US that our urban communities,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality
03 Feb 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama State of the Union: Guns For the Pentagon, Butter For Wall Street, A Spending Freeze For You
28 Jan 2010
Back during the Vietnam war, Democratic presidents Kennedy and Johnson promised we could have guns and butter too. They lied. The cost of the Vietnam war and the world's biggest military machine…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Haiti, Katrina, and Why I Won't Give To Haiti Through the Red Cross
20 Jan 2010
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon At Katrina, the Red Cross used funds generously donated by millions of Americans to disperse tens of thousands of black New Orleans residents to the four corners…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Tavis Smiley Ends State of Black American Union Show, Continues Media Lockdown of Obama's Black Left Critics
13 Jan 2010
Tavis Smiley announced on January 6 that the annual State of the Black Union event, held in early February for the last ten years, will not be held this year. His public reasons are vague and…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Black Politics Is Over: Black Politicians No Longer Believe Social Justice Is Possible
07 Jan 2010
The day before being sworn in, Atlanta's new mayor Kasim Reed pledged to the Chamber of Commerce he'd deal with downtown panhandlers in what he called a more "muscular" fashion. The hopes and…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Is the Detroit Nigerian "Terrorist" A Patsy?
30 Dec 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The bumbling Nigerian “terrorist” who set his lap on fire on board an airliner in Detroit Christmas day will provide days or weeks of conveniently hysterical…