Media And Culture

Mary F. Corey
The Funke Wisdom of Chocolate Cities
07 Mar 2018
“The West becomes West South; the North is Up South; the Middle West is Mid South.”
Lucas Koerner
Will the Venezuelan Masses Still Stand with Maduro at Election Time?
07 Mar 2018
“The people know that it’s easier to deepen a revolution while being in government than to turn it over to a right-wing that has no respect for life.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware the Dangers of Reformism
05 Mar 2018
Reformers often wind up legitimizing and strengthening police power, said Dylan Rodriguez, professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Great, Bloody Black Dispersal from the Cities
01 Mar 2018
“The grand plan is to reverse the demography of the Seventies by forcing Blacks out of the central cities and into suburbs and small towns, rendering Black peo
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Why the Shooting Will Continue
28 Feb 2018
“All the sound and fury about gun control is useless because this society demands that the slave patrol never disband.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Elías Gonzalez
28 Feb 2018
“W.E.B. Du Bois. He really gave us the language; James Baldwin gave us the style.”
Paul Street
Good Panther, Bad Panther
28 Feb 2018
“Black revolutionary consciousness is merged with white and bourgeois Urban Nightmare
Joshua Clark Davis
The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
28 Feb 2018
“In Hoover’s eyes, black-owned bookstores represented a coordinated network of hate-spewing extremists.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Sundiata Acoli’s “Affirmation”
27 Feb 2018
Political prisoner Sundiata Acoli, who was arrested with fellow Black Panther Assata Shakur in 1973, is among a host of political prisoners and activists that took part in a readin
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dubois: Activist and Educator
27 Feb 2018
Philadelphia’s Saturday Free School kicked off a year of activities celebrating WEB Dubois’ life and work with a symposium at the Church of the Advocate.