US Politics

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…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why Isn't Closing 129 Chicago Public Schools National News?
27 Feb 2013
It's an obvious question, with an easy answer. Our nation's bipartisan political elite have decided to privatize public education. They know the only way they can execute this deeply unpopular policy…
Akinyele Umoja
“When Other Folks Give Up Theirs…” Black Freedom and the Gun Control Debate
06 Feb 2013
Contrary to Congressman John Lewis’ revision of history, “the notion that the Civil Rights movement was exclusively nonviolent is a popular mythology.” In fact, “Some members of Lewis’s Student…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Did Bloody Hands, Not Black Womanhood Sink Susan Rice Nomination?
20 Dec 2012
Did Susan Rice step down on her own or did she do so at the insistence of the White House. Did Republican oppostion doom her nomination, or was the Obama administration too afraid to have such a bare…
Bill Quigley
Fifteen Issues this Election is Not About
24 Sep 2012
by Bill Quigley The ties that bind the two corporate parties and their presidential candidates are much stronger than any differences that separate them. That’s why a progressive platform could be…
Boasting, Roasting, Coasting & Toasting: The Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference
12 Sep 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Later this month, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation will hold its annual star-studded affair in DC, commemorating old victories it mostly had…
Obama 2012 Smacks Down Jim Clyburn For Criticizing Bain & Vampire Equity Firms, Obama Supporters Pretend Not to Notice
30 May 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Fool me once, the saying goes, shame on you. Fool me again --- you know the rest. But what do we call it when Obama supporters willingly deceive themselves about…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Corey Booker and the Hard Right's Colonization of Black American Politics
24 May 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon A new black political class has arisen, one with only nominal connections to black voters or communities Their careers and orientation are corporate through and…
Don't Be Fooled. Cory Booker, Barack Obama & the Whole Black Political Class Love Bain Capital
23 May 2012
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Did Newark mayor Cory Booker really cross the Obama campaign when he defended vampire capital companies like Romney's Bain? Or was he just being truer to his own…