Media And Culture

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The Mulatta in White Brazilian and US Imaginations
16 Nov 2020
“The mixed Black figure, the mulatta” is “a central focus of containing and managing Blackness and upholding whiteness” in both Brazil and the United States, said Jasmine Mitchell,
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Black Voters: “Contrarian” Men and “Communal” Women
12 Nov 2020
A significant portion of Black males are “contrarians” that take positions at odds with the general Black political consensus – while Black women tend to take the communal approach.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Real Resistance Begins
11 Nov 2020
“Kamala Auntie” and Joe from Scranton will do as little as possible so that “nothing will fundamentally change” that would halt endless wars and the Race to the Bottom.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin on Unca Jim Clyburn an de Sharp Rite Turn
11 Nov 2020
Son, it look lak Unca Jim say, “Las’ time I chek I’se de whip— an’ got no time fo’ young Negroz wit all dey Blak Life lip…”
Alex Zambito
The FBI’s War on the Left: A Short History of COINTELPRO
11 Nov 2020
The Bureau’s COINTELPRO deployed every trick and crime in the book to crush left dissidents, from disruption to assassination.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lia T. Bascomb’s “In Plenty and in Time of Need”
11 Nov 2020
Politicians ignore at their peril the power of popular culture and its people-moving practitioners.
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.