Bruce Dixon

As slugger Barry Bonds becomes the second person in seventy years to surpass the home run record of Babe Ruth, he has found himself the target of an avalanche of hostile commentary on the part of the sports media, team owners, and underemployed politicians. The title of Bob Wing’s BC guest commentary last week, Hating…

The label of “post civil rights” black leadership is one that corporate pundits eagerly bestow on any new black face in a high place who agrees with them, and who is willing to depart from the widely shared consensus of African American opinion. But the truth is nearly always different from the verdicts of the…

Editors like to think they know their audiences, but it’s not always true. We were surprised by the volume of email answering Michel Martin’s open letter taking to task poet Ishmael Reed, the “Black left” in general and BC in particular for our alleged lack of civility. Here’s what Janet Brown of Oakland CA had…

While the Chicago Sun-Times alleged in its April 25 front page story that a not for profit organization headed by Chicago’s Congressman Bobby Rush accepted a million dollar donation from a subsidiary of AT&T, its follow-up has been strangely limited to the congressman’s alleged ethical violation alone. With the exception of a single tech column…

For a significant chunk of white America including its ruling elite, the best and most desirable state of race relations is achieved when black people just shut the heck up. While this condition is not obtainable in the real world, the evacuation of New Orleans appears locally to have yielded for them, the next best…

In BC’s April 6 Think Piece “Race, Place and Freedom”, Professor Paul Street recounted what he called his most depressing classroom experience. “It took place in the tragic aftermath of what I sometimes call ‘Tropical Storm and Societal Failure Katrina.’ Only days before, the nation had been treated to a series of graphic televised images…

Last week’s BC cover story unmasked Atlanta’s Kasim Reed, a part-time Democrat and black state senator and a full time corporate attorney with an anti-civil rights and pro-employment discrimination practice, and generated quite a bit of reader email. There was this comment from Mr. Albert Murphy: Thanks for your superb article on Kasim Reed, and…