Media And Culture

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
07 Oct 2020
This week Russophobia and the recent presidential debate were the topic of conversation.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Shay-Akil McLean
07 Oct 2020
Black health is directly connected to the displacement and dispossession of our ancestors and the conditions of our neighborhoods.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jennifer Bajorek’s “Unfixed”
07 Oct 2020
Through photography, the author asks questions about the meaning and nature of liberation.
Timothy Erik Strom and John Pilger
Eyewitness to the Agony of Julian Assange
07 Oct 2020
The defendant was caged behind thick glass, and had to crawl on his knees to a slit in the glass to make contact with his lawyers.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life
30 Sep 2020
Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black people’s inability to protect our lives.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
‘Anarchist jurisdiction’ State of Mind…
30 Sep 2020
Some thugs like to Lie all day— strip our rights away,
Deborah L. Bowen and Tryon P. Woods
Hamilton and the Minstrel Show Remix
30 Sep 2020
Hamilton has sent white people with emotional investments in not being racist over-the-moon.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: GerShun Avilez’s “Black Queer Freedom”
30 Sep 2020
The author helps us think about Blackness, queerness, and artistic production in new lights.
Jefferson Cowie
Is Freedom White?
30 Sep 2020
Now as in the past, much of the talk about American “freedom” is really about white people’s presumed right to dominate everyone else.
Riva Enteen
Fear and Russia-Loathing in the National Lawyers Guild
30 Sep 2020
Trump’s election, Russiagate and the smear campaign against Julian Assange have deluded and disoriented many “left” organizations.