Bruce Dixon

From her Atlanta home, former Gulf Coast resident Latosha Brown and a few friends watched the man-made catastrophe unfold in the wake Hurricane Katrina. “We kept expecting to see the National Guard, the government, the Red Cross, somebody to do something. The idea that our leaders would allow people to fend for themselves two, three,…

Ever since humans started farming about ten thousand years ago, farmers have saved the seed from one year’s crop to produce the next, and freely exchanged seed with neighbors and friends. If the Bush administration and its friends at Monsanto and other “life-sciences” corporations get their way it will soon be illegal in much of…

December 4, 2004 marked the 35th anniversary of the police executions of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, in Chicago. Associate Editor Bruce A. Dixon, then a member of the Illinois Black Panther Party, offers these recollections of Hampton. I remember Fred Hampton. For the last year of his life, which was the whole…

We’ve all heard that the coming presidential and congressional elections are the most significant in decades, perhaps the most crucial of our lifetimes. While this is important news, it’s not especially good news for African Americans. The number of parties and candidates that will be available to choose from in November is seriously limited and…

Georgia’s 4th congressional district is up for grabs again. Late last week Cynthia McKinney announced her candidacy for the seat she lost two years ago to former black Republican Denise Majette. Days later, incumbent Majette declared herself a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia’s July 20 primary election, abandoning the Atlanta district after a…

“…a broader question remains on the table. What is the best strategy for building majority support for a progressive agenda, and for reversing the rightward drift of this country?” We at posed the question in terms of the “bright lines” that progressives must draw – public policy lines that appeal to, serve and empower people…