Media And Culture

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Super-Hero Comics and Black Empowerment
28 May 2018
Prof Turtel Onlihas been producing and marketing Black super-hero comic books for more than four decades, through his Chicago-based Onli Studios.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
The Left Needs More Critical Debate and Real Discussion, Less Twitter/Facebook Name Calling and Mic Drops
24 May 2018
A couple months ago I attended a gathering at somebody’s Atlanta home.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Piece Process
23 May 2018
Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze it’s a joy-stick; a video game to him He has orders to “light up” anything that moves; “Mow the grass, one blade at a time…” “One shot,
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Sells Out Its Constituents Again – to the Cops
23 May 2018
“This bill will be received as yet another attack on these communities and threatens to exacerbate what is already a discriminatory system of mass incarceratio
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: CIA and FBI Election Interference
23 May 2018
“The same forces which went after Trump will come after anyone else who is seen as a danger to the system.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Gaza: Grandstanding Around a Slow Motion Genocide
23 May 2018
“Israel is massacring Palestinian civilians again, but ‘the UN’—meaning the Security Council—has no power to stop it.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Blain’s Set the World on Fire
23 May 2018
“It is impossible to understand, or even fully appreciate, how black women have shaped national and global politics today without knowing the larger history.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ M Archive
23 May 2018
“This moment we are living through has infinite possibilities, and not all of those possibilities include the existence of humans.”
Mark P. Fancher
Africans Can Become a People Not to Be Trifled With
23 May 2018
“One effective method of attacking the imperialist infrastructure is to drain its pool of enforcers by organizing a total boycott of the U.S. military.”
Yves Engler
The French Imperial Role in Africa
23 May 2018
“Criticizing France’s role in Rwanda dovetails with the interests of Kigali, Washington, London and Ottawa.”