Media And Culture

Ann Garrison , BAR contributor , Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is Not Papa Africa Saving Slaves
06 Dec 2017
“Migrants deported from Israel to Rwanda in 2014 and 2015 have been horrifically abused and trafficked back to the Mediterranean.”
Ryan Singel
The FCC is Delivering the Internet to Corporate Control
06 Dec 2017
“Non-mainstream media news sources across the political spectrum would no longer be able to afford to compete in the marketplace of ideas.”
Thabi Myeni
South Africa: Facebook is Still Censoring Black Activists
06 Dec 2017
“Black people from all over the world must come together and organize and mobilize against Facebook, on Facebook.”
Vijay Prashad
Libya Is Home to a 21st-Century Slave Market But the UN Security Council Won’t Act
06 Dec 2017
“Libya has become a marketplace for the trafficking of human beings.”
Ben Norton
Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya
06 Dec 2017
“Militants in the rebel stronghold of Misrata referred to themselves as ‘the brigade for purging slaves, black skin.’”
Solomon Comissiong
How Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Contributed to Libya's Slavery Crisis
06 Dec 2017
“The Obama administration bombed Libya into oblivion while using racist and terrorist rebel groups to do their dirty deeds on the ground.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Black Friday?
30 Nov 2017
Thought solemnity— bowed heads, hands held, streams of consciousness, Blessings counted the day before: Flowing water; No rockets’ red glare; No bombs bursting
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Even Russian Dissidents Say Americans Have Gone Crazy Over Putin
30 Nov 2017
“Pro-western Russian liberals are dismayed, insulted and angry at the non-stop lunacy churned out by U.S. media.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Contradictions of White Supremacy
29 Nov 2017
“Very few white Americans stray far from this country’s racist origins.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Thank CNN for the Slave Auctions in Libya
29 Nov 2017
“Zero context is given as to why the slave auctions exist in the first place.”