Media And Culture

Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
29 Oct 2020
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bankrolling blu klux klans?
28 Oct 2020
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Danielle Morgan’s “Laughing to Keep From Dying”
28 Oct 2020
There is nothing strange about Black folks laughing at the sheer immensity of ways we can die.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Antoine Johnson
28 Oct 2020
We have to consume things with Black liberation and environmental justice in mind.
Gregory N. Heires
Paul Robeson’s American Ballad
28 Oct 2020
Brilliant and amazingly multitalented, Robeson was once among the most popular men in the U.S;, but became a non-person under relentless red-baiting.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week October 26, 2020
27 Oct 2020
The Rich Will Use Crisis to Further Immiserate Workers
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford , Lydia McCaskill
Towards a “De-White Supremification of Amerikkka”
26 Oct 2020
Lydia McCaskill, a masters and doctoral student at North Carolina Central University and activist firebrand in her hometown of Gastonia, proposes a process of “de-white supremifica
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Peace, Black Self-Determination, and the Duopoly Trap
22 Oct 2020
Corporate institutions and their Black servants conspire to hide the fact that the Black American worldview is profoundly Left on issues of peace and social justice.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden and Liberal Censorship
21 Oct 2020
It is Democrats and the technology companies which support them that are doing most of the censoring that is identified with fascist societies.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
…Freakish flight of the fearless Fly…
14 Oct 2020
There sat the morally constipated politician fartin’ ‘round with truth like an amateur magician… Locked, loaded, flinging fecal matter at a class mate…