Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Justice Is Served
04 Sep 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Justice is served A la Carte, chokehold-style, or Fifty bullets, forty-one, or one Or two well placed headshots From killing-machine chefs
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Hail the Heroic Mid-west Bank: Ferguson
27 Aug 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Working people of Ferguson are still standing tall against Judas Quisling Steppin’ Fetchit house Negroz telling them to “Get off the streets,” “Go home…
Zeynep Tufekci
What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
26 Aug 2014
This timely article explains how Twitter assisted the public in knowing about Ferguson, and essentially forced corporate media to cover it, while Facebook did the opposite.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
“Civil Rights” Leaders, Politic365 bloggers, CBC Members Get Paid, the Public Gets Played on Network Neutrality.
26 Aug 2014
Is there any part of the black political class that isn't for sale, or hasn't been already been leased by Comcast, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T or Time-Warner?
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin on The State Machine’s Machinegun-Totin’ Cops…
20 Aug 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Dey got Glocks, pumps, tasirs, peppurspray, vess— White magik fo’ conjurin’ cases ob “resisin’ aress!”
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Running Orders
29 Jul 2014
by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha You live in the wrong place and now is your chance to run to nowhere.
Akinyele Umoja
Hating the Root: Attacks on Vodou in Haiti
19 Jan 2011
Haitian practitioners of Vodou, an integral part of the nation's culture, have been set upon and lynched by evangelical protestants linked to the U.S. Right.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Why President Obama Won't Deliver On His Network Neutrality Promises
01 Dec 2010
After two years of President Barack Obama, where are we on network neutrality, and the rights of minority communities to fight the digital redlining of our communities which lies at the core of the
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Color Of Change Takes On Black Caucus on Internet Neutrality
22 Sep 2010
“Black watchdogs are most effective in unmasking and shaming the culprits within our own ranks.” We “tip our hats” to Color of Change for exposing the Congressional Black Caucus’s abysmal collectiv
James Owens , Scott Sanders
Network Neutrality Should Be The Beginning, We Need Community Control Over Public Media
17 Mar 2010
Cheap, fast and universally available broadband access will be as vital to community economic development in the 21st century as paved roads. But neither universal access nor a just media pro