African America

Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
“Civil Rights” Leaders, Politic365 bloggers, CBC Members Get Paid, the Public Gets Played on Network Neutrality.
26 Aug 2014
Is there any part of the black political class that isn't for sale, or hasn't been already been leased by Comcast, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T or Time-Warner?
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Cowardly, Hypocritical, Subservient Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza
31 Jul 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Only 2 of over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members voted against legitimizing the 2009 Israeli massacre of 1400 mostly civilians in Gaza, with seven CBC…
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 state. Accomplishing reparations would require a…
Pascal Robert
Thanks to the Congressional Black Caucus “Remy” from “House of Cards” is Real
04 Jun 2014
by Pascal Robert The truth is more evil than Netflix fiction. Staffers at the Congressional Black Caucus – doubtless mimicking the morals of their elected bosses – eventually formed their own…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Happy 131st Birthday Hubert Harrison, Giant of Black History
29 Apr 2014
by Jeffrey B. Perry More race conscious than A. Philip Randolph and more class conscious than Marcus Garvey, Hubert H. Harrison’s “ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy…
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…
Jane Biral
HBCUs and the United Negro College Fund: Another Grand Betrayal
20 Nov 2013
Misleadership and the Mission
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Who is Jeh Johnson, and Why Should Black People Be Hanging Our Heads in Shame?
23 Oct 2013
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones.…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Roll Over & Die, or Shut Up & Sell Out: HBCUs & the Talented Tenth in the Obama Era
16 Oct 2013
When the Obama administration changed college loan rules in 2011, 28,000 students dropped out of HBCUs due to economic stress.
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…