Bruce A. Dixon

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Blackwashing, the Reparations Brand, and a Last Refuge For Scoundrels
18 Jun 2014
No sensible person should doubt the fundamental justice of arguments for reparations for the historic crimes of slavery, Jim Crow, and today's prison…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Black Leadership Response to the Koch $25 Million “Gift” Should Be a Movement For Free College Tuition
11 Jun 2014
Seven generations after the founding of our first historically black colleges and universities, t
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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
One Year After Chicago Closes 50 Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union Assesses the Lies and Lasting Damage
28 May 2014
A couple years ago, we at Black Agenda Report wondered why the closings of 40 public schools over
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…