Media And Culture

Movement for Black Lives
Movement for Black Lives National Demands for Covid-19
15 Apr 2020
Read and save this comprehensive document from M4BL. A vision for Black lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Bolivia Coup is Rooted in White Racist Backlash
13 Apr 2020
Last year’s “coup has to do with the racist backlash against President Evo Morales and the whole process of indigenous revalorization and empowerment,” said Dr.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Whites See Black Kids as “Disturbing the Peace”
13 Apr 2020
Sky-high rates of suspension of Black students are caused by a pervasive “system of anti-Blackness” rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, said Dr.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Andrew Cuomo and the Crisis of Liberalism
08 Apr 2020
The “liberal” champion is a corporate thug who pays prisoners slave wages to make hand sanitizer and is trying to cut Medicaid.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
COVID-19 in DRC: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst
08 Apr 2020
Deaths caused by the pandemic are likely to occur without assistance of any kind, without any administrative record, and without acknowledgment in the news cycle.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Mengele Medicine: Death Panels of Boss Tweet and Pence
08 Apr 2020
STOP! No testing! No testing for the infection— big, big numbers could threaten the $election! STOP! No testing for us poor, us working-class—
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Apr 2020
This week you discussed Black Marxism and the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Xavier Livermon’s “Kwaito Bodies”
08 Apr 2020
The author examines how Black youth in post-apartheid South Africa imagine freedom under tremendous systems of constraint.
Elizabeth Cooney
Blacks May be Bearing the Brunt of Covid-19, But Access to Data is Limited
08 Apr 2020
The feds don’t keep racial data on the coronavirus, but local reports show Blacks are dying at multiple the rates of whites in some cities.
Soraya Nadia Mcdonald
In 1918 and 2020, Race Colors America’s Response to Epidemics
08 Apr 2020
A century ago, In cities across the nation, black people struck by the flu were often left to fend for themselves.