Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ana-Maurine Lara’s “Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty” and “Streetwalking”
02 Dec 2020
The author wants us to deepen our analysis of how power moves through the world to constrain Black life, and how queer Black people resist these constraints.
Andrew King
Woke Capitalism: The Poison Pill of Liberal Anti-Racism
02 Dec 2020
Both capitalist parties, and members of the black misleadership class, intentionally play the game of racial politics in order to obscure and ignore issues of class and poverty.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Biden, the Emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball
26 Nov 2020
The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker whe
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden Era
25 Nov 2020
The corporate media have joined the incoming administration in deciding what we can and cannot see and hear.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 23, 2020
25 Nov 2020
Reject “Thanks-Taking,” Join in National Day of Mourning
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Endangering species…
25 Nov 2020
Endangering species— First Negroz and wild Karens in power—members of the Strong- arm Williams-Thom-ass Clarence-led Bassackwards Tribe; Riding mostly 2/4
Adofo Minka
Spies of Mississippi: Mayor Lumumba’s Cops Put Public Under Spyglass
25 Nov 2020
Jackson’s supposedly “radical” Black mayor wants to make surveillance great again in Mississippi.
Carroll Bogert
Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth
25 Nov 2020
By the end of the 90s corporate journalists were feverishly dehumanizing young blacks in news stories, editorials and commentaries.
BAR Comments Editor Jahan Choudhry
Letters from Our Readers
25 Nov 2020
This week the lives of the incarcerated, Susan Rice’s bid to be Secretary of State, and the incoming administrators of the empire were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lavelle Porter’s “The Blackademic Life”
25 Nov 2020
Despite academia’s inherent racism, black scholars have figured out ways to work within these institutions.