Media And Culture

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 May 2020
Recently, readers have been discussing democratic socialists, American exceptionalism, and identity politics.
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition’s “Ballot and the Bulllet” Electoral School
26 May 2020
Since the smashing of the Black Liberation Movement, “the electoral process has been monopolized by the petit-bourgeois sell-out sector,” said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedomrider: Obamagate is Real
20 May 2020
Obama’s fans like to think of the First Black President as scholarly and above the fray of dirty politics, but he appears to have conspired with the FBI to set up the incoming administration.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
20 May 2020
This week a Democratic Party exit, the role of Democratic Party sheepdogs, and the racial fallout of the pandemic in Chicago were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s “Becoming Human”
20 May 2020
Black people are without the shelter of rights and protection, whether invited into or locked out of ‘the human.’”
Abdallah El Harif and Vijay Prashad
A Universal Appeal for Humanity to End Militarism and Stop War
20 May 2020
A bloc of countries, led by the United States of America, is stubbornly persisting in using force to maintain and extend their global dominance.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia: Everybody is Getting a Taste of Lockdown
18 May 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, says all of Pennsylania’s incarcerated population has been on 23 hour, 15 minute daily lockdown since the beginnin
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Things Don’t Get No Better
13 May 2020
The current season of sickness – biological and political – is, indeed, strange, with no hint of a better day any time soon.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Archaic capitalism’s COVID cops?
13 May 2020
What if COVID-19 came and drove down crime by 40%? What if capitalism’s cops be- came useless