Media And Culture

Asha Noor
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
02 Sep 2020
An abolitionist frame of thought is a rebirth, a spiritual process, a painful undertaking, and an ancestral conjuring for Black and brown people.
Hana Kiros
A Tale of Two Teens: When White Killers Are Treated Better Than Black Victims
02 Sep 2020
It’s Cowboys and Indians updated: a wicked game where Black people are seen as predators but almost always end up prey.
Patrick D. Anderson
WikiLeaks, Still Revealing Truths About Power, Officially Launches Bibliography
02 Sep 2020
The interpretations of and commentaries in the bibliography vary widely, from unquestionable support for WikiLeaks to outright hatred of Assange.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 31, 2020
01 Sep 2020
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The Black Geography of HIV-AIDS
01 Sep 2020
When HIV-AIDS struck in Philadelphia, mostly white organizations and epidemiologists “were blinded to the kind of locations and geography” where the contagion might be centered in the Black communi
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Capitalist Law vs “Uncontrollable Blackness”
01 Sep 2020
The United States “criminalizes Black Americans,” but Black men “are not looking to be controlled” by this racist system, said Douglas Flowe, an historian at Washington Univer
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Without Trump
27 Aug 2020
Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with police union endorse
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats are Officially Republicans
26 Aug 2020
The Democrats claim to be the opposition party, but they seek out Republicans, hate the left of their own party, and don’t seem to care if they lose the election.
Anthony Monteiro
James Baldwin Still Matters and Eddie Glaude’s Book on Him Doesn’t
26 Aug 2020
Glaude has done a great injustice to Baldwin, turning the great Black writer and thinker into a mere liberal burned out by trauma and a sense of his fragility.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For my Postal Worker Brothers and Sisters
26 Aug 2020
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these courageous couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” --Herodotus