All articles by Bruce Dixon

As Dyett hunger strike ends, a long look at the 'Black Political Class' by Black Agenda Report... 'The Black Political Class stands for privatization... which side are you one?...'

[Editor's Note: The report below came out during the struggle over the future of Dyett High School in Chicago, but is as timely today (September 20, 2015) as it was when it was first published. . . .

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LESSONS OF CHICAGO'S 2015 ELECTION: Black Agenda Report exposes collaboration of Black political and community leaders with Emanuel...

[Editor's Note: Substance is once again reprinting a significant analysis by Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report. The analysis was published late on April 8, 2015, when the final results of the 2015 mayoral election . . .

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Demonizing Teachers, Privatizing Schools: The Big Lies and Big Plans Behind the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal.... Is this the 'worst thing' ever to happen in Atlanta?

[Editor's Note. The following article Demonizing Teachers, Privatizing Schools: The Big Lies and Big Plans Behind the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal by our colleague Bruce A. Dixon, Black Agenda Report Managing Editor, was first published . . .

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VALLAS WATCH: Serial School Privatizer 'Chainsaw Paul' Vallas gets ready for his next job -- Lieutenant Governor of Illinois!?

[Editor's Note: The following article (included below with some of the original comments) was published on June 25, 2014 by Black Agenda Report and is reprinted here with permission. The URL for the original is: . . .

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MEDIA WATCH: 'Chicagoland makes a kind of neoliberal action hero out of Rahm Emanuel...' Black Agenda Report takes on the crude propaganda of 'Chicagoland'... CNN's Chicagoland: An 8 Part Miniseries Campaign Commercial For Rahm Emanuel and Urban Neoliberalism

[Editor's Note: I know that it was a British Prime Minister at the height of the racism of the British Raj and the Empire who proclaimed "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics..." But for . . .

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More on Obama myths... Black Agenda Report takes on Obama's excuses, false historical analogies

[Editor's note: The folllowing came to Substance from Black Agenda Report and is reprinted here with permission. Readers are advised to also read the related stories, including the Cornel West interview. Harry Belafonte Explodes the . . .

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