Media And Culture

The Editors
Black Agenda Report Will Return January 7, 2026
19 Dec 2025
The Black Agenda Report team are taking our annual end of year break. We will be back with a new issue on January 7, 2026. Thanks for your support and have a great holiday season!
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Army of Artists (For My Friend Horace Silver)
17 Dec 2025
"Army of Artists (For My Friend Horace Silver)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ben Passmore’s Book, “Black Arms to Hold You Up”
17 Dec 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Ben Passmore. Passmore is the author of the ongoing comic book series Daygloayhole, as…
Sovereign Media
Anti-Imperialist Coalition Sovereign Media Launches Today
01 Oct 2025
Today, we launch Sovereign Media, an anti-imperialist coalition bringing together voices from the Global South and the Global North who refuse to bow to censorship or empire.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Atiya Husain’s Book, “No God but Man”
12 Mar 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Atiya Husain. Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen, Langston Hughes, 1943
29 Jan 2025
Langston Hughes’s 1943 poem against fascism is precise, droll, and eternal.
Arnold August
Liberal Media and Personalities: The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall
08 Jan 2025
On Dec 11, 2024, it was reported that the post-election audiences for the leading liberal media, MSNBC and CNN, continued to drop: 46% and 33%, respectively. Some of MSNBC’s biggest stars, including…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
From Relative “Peace” to Chaos: The First Phase of a New War Returns to Syria
11 Dec 2024
The fall of the Syrian government is being heralded by Western liberals and "leftists." The collapse is not the liberation that is being presented by the US and its corporate media partners.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson’s Book, “We Grow the World Together”
04 Dec 2024
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
MrJoeSam’s Text Messages
12 Jun 2024
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR’s poet-in-residence, pays homage to San Francisco’s late shipyard artist, JoeSam.