Media And Culture

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.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The US Dictatorship of (White) Capital and its Tools of Bamboozlement
24 Sep 2020
The New York Times and fellow corporate media discourage Americans from organizing against the rule of the rich by pretending that People Power is a fantasy.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Democrats’ Supreme Failure
23 Sep 2020
The corporate Democrats refuse to back measures that appeal to huge majorities of their base, preferring instead to campaign against one evil man and his appointees.
Anthony Monteiro
Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis
23 Sep 2020
Oprah gushes that this book by the latest darling of the ruling classes might “save us,” but all it’s really trying to save is capitalism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joy White’s “Terraformed”
23 Sep 2020
This book locates the struggles, wins and losses of young Black lives in a structural, institutional and historical context.