Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why Elections Still Matter, Except When They Don't
02 Jul 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Martin Luther King once talked about how a black person in the south was unable to vote, while one in the north had nothing to vote for. 50 years…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Serial School Privatizer "Chainsaw Paul" Vallas Gets Ready For His Next Job
25 Jun 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Neoliberalism holds that all human interactions should to be disciplined and mediated by the market. Paul Vallas is the nation's neoliberal chainsaw man on…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Top 10 Reasons Why Corporate Social Media is Not Your Friend, and Dark Social Media Is
18 Jun 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon For a long time now, we've all been told, and have told each other, that corporate social media is the way to build businesses, audiences and brands. What if…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Black Lobbyists, Black Legislators Leverage Their “Brands” For Banksters, Military Contractors, Corporate Interests
04 Jun 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When black politics emanated from the streets, not the suites, it was a force against imperial war, for full employment, better housing and public education. But…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack & Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill For Wal-Mart
21 May 2014
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Democrats in labor unions and figures like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and others were justly outraged at Barack Obama's latest wet kiss to Wal-Mart…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Jackson Rising: Black Millionaires Won't Lift Us Up, But Cooperation & the Solidarity Economy Might
07 May 2014
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon “320 activists from all over the country, including 80 or more from Jackson and surrounding parts of Mississippi converged on the campus of Jackson State…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
6 Reasons Why Obama's Clemency Program For Drug Offenders Doesn't Change Mass Incarceration One Bit
23 Apr 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The White House is reportedly considering using clemency to release a few hundred or couple thousand federal prisoners. Better than nothing, but it's in no…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Are Black "Success Stories" Really Holding Us Back?
17 Apr 2014
Is it time to critically interrogate the black “success stories” of pro atheletes and near-billionaires? Should we be identifying with the Junior Bridgemans and Magic Johnsons or with their thousands…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
CNN's Chicagoland: An 8 Part Miniseries Campaign Commercial For Rahm Emanuel and Urban Neoliberalism
10 Apr 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon CNN's Chicagoland "documentary" is an 8 part wet kiss for Rahm Emanuel & neoliberalism by the same crew that made Brick City, a propaganda flick to…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Striking GA Prisoners Name Names, Allege Sexual Abuse, Ongoing Threats, Maltreatment by Staff
20 Mar 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Not quite a month ago, I wrote that we at Black Agenda Report had received word of a new self-organized hunger strike among prisoners in Georgia's notorious…