Media And Culture

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
24 Mar 2020
For decades, politicians and business people have claimed that, if only African Americans used their alleged trillion dollar consumer purchasing power wisely, Blacks would make great economic and p
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions
19 Mar 2020
The epidemic reveals the stark truth, that the US dismantled and privatized its public health system, to fatten the pockets of the oligarchy and render working people more helpless and dependent.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Sanders Gets Swallowed by the DNC Machine: It’s Time to #DemExit
18 Mar 2020
Only the demise of the Democratic Party can free up the potential of the people to resolve the many problems created by capitalism and imperialism.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ruling-class Remedies
18 Mar 2020
If you’re feeling exceptionally feverish or feverishly exceptional pull a tight-fitting, cherry red MAGAT cap over your forehead and eyes. Tight
Hannah Appel
Debtors of the World, Unite!
18 Mar 2020
Debt’s ubiquity is a burden, but also an opportunity. “The point of debtors’ unions it is to build collective power—people power.”
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
18 Mar 2020
This week there was much discussion on the Sanders campaign, the black misleadership class, and the Covid-19.
Daniel Lazare
The Great Bernie Bust
18 Mar 2020
It is now all but certain that Joe Biden will be the Democratic candidate.
joshua briond
The New White Moderate: Political Coercion, Liberalism, and the Failed Electoral Strategy
18 Mar 2020
A democracy is not just being “allowed” to “choose” your representatives, but having representatives that actually align with peoples material interests.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 16, 2020
16 Mar 2020
Black Misleaders Put Their Own Class Interest Above Black Health