Media And Culture

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.
Jessica Corbett
Moral Leaders Demand Coronavirus Relief for Most Vulnerable
08 Apr 2020
The relief package “leaves out the majority of homeless, undocumented immigrants, the disabled, and anyone too poor to have to file taxes,” says the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Philippe Gendrault
Public Health? Anyone? Twelve Ways to Avoid Talking About Capitalism
08 Apr 2020
The failure of the American public health delivery system facing the Covid-19 is a socio-political and ideological failure born from the intrinsic contradictions of contemporary capitalism at large
Barry Spector
Affirmative Action for White People
08 Apr 2020
Most whites have been able to live out their lives completely unaware of the long term, institutional factors that have kept people of color down – and themselves up.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes
01 Apr 2020
The systemic failure of the capitalist order triggered by the coronavirus has reinforced the growing awareness that extreme wealth inequality is a fundamental characteristic of the system.
John G. Russell
Racial Profiling Disorder: the All-American Pandemic
01 Apr 2020
RAPROD carriers are convinced that blacks disproportionately carry guns and other contraband.
Ed Morales
The Roots of Organizing: The Young Lords’ Revolution
01 Apr 2020
Historian Johanna Fernández makes the case for the Young Lords as profound thinkers as well as highly capable street activists.