Media And Culture

Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
09 Sep 2020
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: R.A. Judy’s Book, “Sentient Flesh”
09 Sep 2020
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jasmine Mitchell‘s “Imagining the Mulatta”
09 Sep 2020
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
John Pilger
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
09 Sep 2020
The collusion of powers wants to bury Julian alive in their war on the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and democracy.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Asa Hilliard’s Concept of “Africanized” Education
07 Sep 2020
Although famed educator Asa Hilliard died in 2007, his advocacy of “Africanized” teaching and thinking continues to gain adherents.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia
02 Sep 2020
U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Difference between the CPC and the DNC? A Study of Politics Versus Personalities
02 Sep 2020
Unlike Joe Biden, Xi Jinping’s report is centered, not on personality but on the actually-existing socialist system in China.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA’s Black Power
02 Sep 2020
Black NBA players, writes Ann Garrison, are just beginning to understand the power of the attention and admiration they command.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Deja vu—Step 1 and Step 2?
02 Sep 2020
Is this Deja Vu— Step1 and Step 2? The long, long lines breaking with 12 years of Reaganite reaction in ’92 Slick Willy’s $campaign—his sax-
P. Khalil Saucier
“The Balls in (Y)our Court:” Naomi Osaka and (Continued) Black Genocide
02 Sep 2020
Osaka’s statement must be seen as part of a radical tradition too often redacted from sports history.