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Bruce Dixon
Bruce Dixon, In His Own Words
03 Jul 2019
I was born to working class parents, and raised on the south side of Chicago. By 1967 I was involved in the citywide organizing effort among black high school students demanding the first black history courses and opposing the war in Vietnam. In the fall and winter of 1967 we hooked up with young…
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner
For Brother Bruce
03 Jul 2019
Here’s the FOIA requested, Redacted part of the story they never tell You.
Marjorie Cohn
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
10 Jul 2019
Harris favored criminalizing truancy, raising cash bail fees and keeping prisoners locked up for cheap labor. “Harris’s prosecutorial record, however, is far from progressive.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ashanté Reese’s “Black Food Geographies”
10 Jul 2019
“Deserts are natural phenomena, but the lack of food services in Black communities is a systemic, man-made evil. “The unequal distribution of food resources is more evidence that this society is fucked.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ralina Joseph’s “Postracial Resistance”
10 Jul 2019
“Code speaking” in the presence of Power can be strategic, but it is also fraught with perils for Black folk. “It’s important for us to create our own tables where we can say whatever we want.”
Mark P. Fancher
Theft of a Continent -- America’s Real Original Sin
10 Jul 2019
Before slavery there was the theft of territory from indigenous nations followed in short order by a campaign of genocide. “Though the surrender of the settlers’ nation building project may seem unreasonable, it is precisely what the settlers demanded of America’s indigenous first nations.”
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
DSA “Socialism” Conference Features US-Funded Regime Change Activists
10 Jul 2019
The DSA Socialism Conference combines calls for radical economic transformation with demonization of governments targeted for regime change by the US. “One DSA conference panel rails against the socialist governments of Nicaragua and Cuba with outspoken proponents of regime change.” Socialism…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Farewell, Comrade Bruce
10 Jul 2019
Bruce Dixon was anti-empire, anti-capitalist, and a champion of working-class Black America and the people at large. “His organizing expertise is needed now more than ever in a period when leftist organizations are either non-existent, wed to the Democratic Party, or barely functioning.”
by BAR contributor Ann Garrison Ann Garrison
Bruce Dixon: A Giant Walks On
10 Jul 2019
Our beloved Managing Editor is a permanent presence in BAR and in the people’s struggle for social justice. “He was kind, compassionate, loyal, and humble despite his many achievements.”
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Time for Russiagate to End
10 Jul 2019
Russiagate is a scheme meant to give Democrats popular support without doing anything the public want them to do. “Democrats like the system just fine the way it is and don’t want to give the public any ideas about change.”