Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adrienne Brown’s “The Black Skyscraper”
11 Nov 2020
Facial masks and Black Lives Matter murals are part of the ever-changing panorama that shapes our perceptions of hierarchy, just as tall buildings do.
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
The Elusive Quest for Justice in Black America
11 Nov 2020
We as Black people must keep pushing, organizing, and demanding a Black agenda centered on reparations.
Morning Star Gali
Stolen Freedom: The Ongoing Incarceration of California’s Indigenous Peoples
11 Nov 2020
For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Argentinians Demand Inclusion in National Story
10 Nov 2020
Argentina created a mythology of national whiteness that pretended the country’s Black population had long ago gone extinct, and ignored the presence of indigenous people.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Supremacy Lite Wins the Prize
10 Nov 2020
The contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was about how best to preserve whiteness, said Dr Johnny Williams, professor of Sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticu
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rubble Kings: How the Violence Stopped and Hip Hop Emerged in the South Bronx
04 Nov 2020
A fact-based, crowd-funded film on urban devastation and gang warfare in the South Bronx packs a bigger political punch than the cult classic, The Warriors.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dean Spade’s “Mutual Aid”
04 Nov 2020
Mutual aid work is part of actually addressing survival needs right now, and getting to the root causes of problems.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2020
03 Nov 2020
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia on 2020 Elections
03 Nov 2020
The polls were wrong in 2016, and they may be wrong this year, too, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Queerness in Africa is Complicated
03 Nov 2020
Thirty African countries have laws against homosexuality, but debate still rages over whether homophobia is endemic to Africa or a European import.