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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.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen’s Book, “The Black Antifascist Tradition”
29 May 2024
This week’s featured authors are Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen. Their book is The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back From Anti-Lynching to Abolition.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Dis-honest Broker
01 May 2024
"Dis-honest Broker" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence, recently performed at UpSurge!NYC at Sister's Bookstore in Harlem, NY. The show was a celebration of National Poetry and Jazz…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Raymond Nat Turner at the UpSurge Jazz Celebration
03 Apr 2024
BAR's Poet-in-Residence will perform next week in New York City.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
TikTok and Israel
20 Mar 2024
The TikTok social media platform is an indicator of U.S. imperialist angst and an incentive for greed. First China was a political target and now Zionists are on the attack in an effort to suppress…