Media And Culture

Dean Spade and Roberto Sirvent, BAR Contributors
BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Alisa Bierria
13 May 2020
In light of the pandemic, we have seen an extraordinary emergence of mutual aid strategies around the world.
Patrick D. Anderson
On George Jackson and Julian Assange
13 May 2020
Both see the United States as the Empire, and they agree that it must be opposed.
Don Fitz
Can We Simultaneously Oppose Bayer/Monsanto’s Biotechnology and Support Cuba’s Interferon Alpha 2B?
13 May 2020
It is necessary to compare the use of biotechnology by food corporations with that of Cuba to decide if they are the same or fundamentally different.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 11, 2020
11 May 2020
Biden’s “Lift Every Voice” Proposal Appeals to Black Misleaders
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Scent of Africa” Marketed to “Afropolitans”
11 May 2020
Fifty years after most African nations won nominal independence, ad agencies are marketing upscale products like the perfume “Scent of Africa” to so-called “Afropolitans,” a cohort defined by
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Systemic Collapse is “Total”
11 May 2020
The current meltdown is “a total crisis of the system” in all its economic, social and political aspects, said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Biden’s “Lift Every Voice” Proposal Appeals to Black Misleaders
11 May 2020
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka said de facto Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s “Lift Every Voice” plan for Black America “assumes th
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Whose Crisis?: When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win
07 May 2020
The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point.
Erica Caines
The Makings of A Capitalist Dystopia
06 May 2020
Colonized people, with a horrific historical connection to both science and medicine in this country, must examine science in service of the state.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd’s “Break Every Yoke”
06 May 2020
The necessary political demand is not that we make better, more humane prisons and jails, but that we abolish prisons and jails altogether.