US Politics

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…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Detroit on the Auction Block
05 Dec 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford With startling speed, a bankruptcy judge has moved Detroit to the auction block, with the banksters pre-positioned to pick the bones of the Black metropolis. Racism…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Who Are the Minions of War in the Black Caucus?
11 Sep 2013
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford For the first time in five years, “the Black Caucus was treated like royalty, rather than a nuisance, as is usual, at the White House.” The reason: Obama needs their…
What's the Difference Between Teach For America and a Scab Temp Agency?
24 Jul 2013
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Back in the days of organizing meat packing, steel and auto workers, employers couldn't use tax-exempt donations to transport,…
Detroit: The Bell Tolls for All of Us
24 Jul 2013
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Detroit’s “crisis” is a yet another form of “disaster capitalism,” orchestrated by corporate America. “Wall Street is creating new law…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
How Complacency, Complicity of Black Misleadership Class Led to Supreme Court Evisceration of the Voting Rights Act
27 Jun 2013
The Supreme Court kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act didn't have to happen? Democrats, especially the black leadership class had more than a generation to exploit their moral and political…
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Supreme Court Kneecaps Voting Rights Act: The Real News Network Talks to Bruce A. Dixon
26 Jun 2013
Supreme Court kneecaps the voting rights act... BAR's Bruce A. Dixon on the Real News Network Real News Network, where you can find much more news updated every day at http://therealnews.com.
Sikivu Hutchinson
Prison House of Textbook History: Remembering the Chicano Blowouts
01 May 2013
by Sikivu Hutchinson 1968, the year of the biggest high school walkout in U.S. history, was not so different than the present. “Then, as now, there was no room for analyses of sexism, racial…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why Does the US Chamber of Commerce Want to Train or Replace Your Elected School Board, If They Haven't Already?
28 Feb 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A key role in the elite drive to privatize public education is being played by privately owned school “accreditation” agencies, which are immune from public…