Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
It’s capitalism, baby… / 1 %-Funded Rally Actors / Solidarity
29 Apr 2020
It’s capitalism, baby…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Candice M. Jenkins’s “Black Bourgeois ”
29 Apr 2020
The zeitgeist of Black literature shifted in the past decade, from Black progress to precarity.
Robert Greene II
Debating Black Freedom
29 Apr 2020
Time and again, Black radicals have pressed for an expanded scope of political and economic freedoms, for Americans at home and for people abroad.
Jon Jeter
Michael Jordan's Sad Legacy as the Plutocrats' Champ, and the Anti-Ali
29 Apr 2020
Ali, the People’s Champ, hurtled into the breach to come to the aid of his community while Jordan did all he could to distance himself.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 27, 2020
27 Apr 2020
Group Demands Louisiana Prisons Be “Evacuated”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
New Mexico Exalts “Three Peoples” – and Leaves Blacks Out Entirely
27 Apr 2020
In a recent article, Dr Natasha Howard, a lecturer in Africana Studies at the University of New Mexico, cited the campus’s “Three Peoples” mural as exemplifying the state
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The Black "Progress Narrative" is Self-Defeating
27 Apr 2020
“When we think we’ve made progress, we are blinded to the ways we have not,” and wind up affirming our slave-like relationship to power, said Anthony Farley, a Visiting Profes
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
24 Apr 2020
The coup in Bolivia and the Bernie Sanders campaign were in your thoughts this week.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
I had a nightmare (For friend/fellow Poet Genny Lim)
22 Apr 2020
I had a nightmare that down in Mississippi, its governor having his lips dripping with words of Social Darwinism, Herd immunity and Mengele Medicine,
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Black Plague
22 Apr 2020
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged