Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Roland Martin, Rick Sanchez and CNN Blow Off The Real Story. Again.
02 Sep 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Having black reporters in the newsroom ought to make a difference in how stories are covered. But often it doesn't. The August 26 arrest of a black Brunswick GA…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Leaving Obamaland
26 Aug 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats could accomplish nothing during the Bush years, they told us, for the first six years because they were a minority, and during the last two because…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Will Obama's Abandonment of the Public Option Take Congressional Democrats Down In 2010?
19 Aug 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Presidents run every four years, but Congress is elected every two. This president said we should judge him by whether he delivers comprehensive, affordable,…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama On Health Care: A Comprehensive Betrayal – Where Do We Go From Here?
12 Aug 2009
The shrunken and eviscerated public option in the Obama health care plan may now be discarded in favor of something called a health co-op. The mounting toll of concessions to drug companies and…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Battle For Health Care: Between Now and Labor Day, It's Still On
05 Aug 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon President Obama told us to judge his first term on whether he managed to provide quality, affordable health care to the American people, especially the uninsured…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren't Fighting For Health Care For Everybody
29 Jul 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon With the corporate media relentlessly distorting the public discussion around health care reform, it time for some clear, bright lines to help us tell who is doing…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Is the Obama Health Care Plan Really Better Than Nothing?
22 Jul 2009
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Candidate Barack Obama told us to judge his first term by whether he delivers quality affordable health care for all Americans, including nearly fifty million…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Two NAACPs and a Century of Struggle
15 Jul 2009
There have always been at least two NAACPs. There has been a national leadership, more sensitive to corporate interests and devoted to what can be won in the court or passed through the legislature…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Barack Obama or Cynthia McKinney -- Who Represents Black America Toward Palestine, Israel and the Middle East?
08 Jul 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce Dixon Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has just returned from an Israeli jail where she was briefly imprisoned, along with human rights activists from several…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Obama's Public Education Policy: Privatization, Charters, Mass Firings, Neighborhood Destabilization
01 Jul 2009
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Last weekend in Chicago, US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered the keynote address at Rainbow PUSH's annual conference and education roundtable.…