Media And Culture

Jahan Choudhry Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
26 Aug 2020
This week you discussed the Biden-Harris ticket and the country’s political prisoners.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Liat Ben-Moshe’s “Decarcerating Disability”
26 Aug 2020
Disability studies looks at disability as an identity and culture and not as a deficit to be corrected.
Hilary Malson
BAR Book Forum: “Black Study and Abolition”
26 Aug 2020
The author examines literature that looks to sites of struggle to find the seeds of an alternative, more just future.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Obama, Harris and the Ruse of Racial Representation
26 Aug 2020
Racial liberalism attempts to shape the perspectives of communities of color through narrow ideas of national belonging, Manifest Destiny, and the American Dream.
Jon Jeter
A Political Comeback for the Ages: Biden's Improbable Nomination
26 Aug 2020
The same corporate media that shamelessly boosted Biden’s candidacy, even when his popularity plummeted, never question his sudden comeback at the polls.
Julie Kuttappan
"Kamala Auntie": On the Vulgarity of Bourgeois Identity Politics in 2020
26 Aug 2020
Harris’ identity as a woman of color has been propped up to cover for her decades-long loyalty to the ruling class, locking up working-class and poor people and deporting migrants.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 24, 2020
25 Aug 2020
Creating Ownership, Equity and Income for College Athletes
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill
25 Aug 2020
The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, IWOC, “is committed to the militant organizing of prisoners that takes its leadership and focus from those on the inside,” said Joergen Ostens
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
To Ignore Political Prisoners is Hypocrisy
25 Aug 2020
“Any movement that seeks to bring radical changes to society that does not incorporate at the top of the list freedom for our freedom fighter that have gone before, is hypocritical,” said J
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Creating Ownership, Equity and Income for College Athletes
25 Aug 2020
“College sports is a highly exploitive system where predominantly Black players in football and basketball generate all the income, but the only group that isn’t positively impacted is the families