Bruce A. Dixon

Last week Rwandan President Paul Kagame appeared in Atlanta for “Rwanda Day”. What Kagame said from the podium wasn't especially important.

In the days before this year's State of the Union address, we heard a lot about how Barack Obama was finally about to unleash the mighty executive powers of his office to accomplish some of the many great things he's always wanted to accomplish, those mostly unspecified things which evil and immo

I'm too young to have memories of the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom in DC. I was twelve, and preoccupied with whatever 12 year olds are worried about. But by the time Dr.

This week a military judge pronounced US Army Private Bradley Manning guilty of espionage and other offenses.

To hear our black political class tell it, the election of the first black US president was its ultimate achievement to date, a giant step toward fulfilment of a previous generation's insurgent agenda for social transformation. Is that real?

The conventional wisdom is that UN Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew herself from consideration as US Secretary of State due to some combination of Republican opposition and the president's unwillingness to go to the mat for her.

For more than five years, the Save Darfur coalition has used a slick and star-studded multimillion dollar ad campaign to paint a horrific vision of 400,000 dead in a black vs. Arab war of extermination in Sudan.