Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Anthony Reed’s “Soundworks”
10 Feb 2021
This week’s author views black aesthetics as a practice of freedom that imagines and conjures alternative social arrangements.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Moya Bailey’s “Misogynoir Transformed”
10 Feb 2021
The author maintains it is a myth that digital activism is less important than the organizing being done on the ground.
Caitlin Johnstone
Electoral Politics Use The Same Containment Strategies As Alzheimer’s Facilities
10 Feb 2021
The US electoral system is like a dementia facility run by Democratic Party staff members pretending to want the same thing we want. “It’s a locked facility.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, August, 1920
03 Feb 2021
As part of our mission to supplement BAR’s historical perspective, the Black Agenda Review examines the Harlem meeting and manifesto that shook the Black world, a century ago.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Conspiracy theory 47
03 Feb 2021
It wasn’t led by lineage of Robert E. Lee— it was nuts demanding healthcare for free! It wasn’t a lynch mob, a putsch, or a coup— what good does divisive descriptions do?
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis
02 Feb 2021
The US billionaire class has grown at unprecedented speed during the pandemic and economic crises, increasing their wealth by over a trillion dollars and adding 46 new oligarchs to their numbers, a
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Pro-Biden Propaganda
27 Jan 2021
The Democratic Party and its corporate media have already white-washed Biden, and nothing will be demanded of him except that he not be Trump.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
First 100 Daze: A ‘new’ dance craze
27 Jan 2021
Everybody’s wild ‘bout this ‘new’ dance craze— this lewd, crude dance called “The 1st 100 Daze…” Here come Ol’ Blak Schmo and Ladee Blu— listen up—they’re gonna teach it to you:
Mary Retta
We Have To Stop Valorizing Black Cops
27 Jan 2021
The purpose of policing––to jail and kill Black folks––remains the same regardless of the officers’ race.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 Jan 2021
This week our readers talked about the weakness of the U.S. left, the storming of the Capitol, and the crisis of U.S. imperialism.