Media And Culture

Solomon Comissiong
The Democratic Party's Theatrical Performances: Fooling Black Voters for Decades
12 Feb 2020
The Democrats are terrible at passing legislation that helps Black and poor people but fantastically talented at political theater.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Mothers and Children Die Because of Racist Medical “Science”
10 Feb 2020
Centuries of medical experimentation on enslaved and free Blacks and scientifically erroneous assumptions about Black bodies have created “a crisis in Black maternal morbidity and infant mortality”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bloomberg Becoming Oligarch-in-Chief of Democratic Party
06 Feb 2020
If Sanders wins the nomination, Michael Bloomberg and his filthy rich brethren are already preparing to fund and erect an alternative structure of dependable corporate governance.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
05 Feb 2020
This week the debate about the Green Party’s presidential campaign was on readers’ minds. We share your letters for “
Todd Steven Burroughs
The Revolution on Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, from 1966 to 1976
04 Feb 2020
Lerone Bennett’s de-colonized perspective was ultimately drowned out by the same capitalist forces that kept him alive in the first place.
Alex Alston
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
04 Feb 2020
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ben Conisbee Baer’s “Indigenous Vanguards”
04 Feb 2020
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged.
Cornel West and Mordecai Lyon
Cornel West on Missing Zinn
04 Feb 2020
On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade – including whether he would have voted fo
David Swanson
All US Presidents are Criminals
04 Feb 2020
BAR's Margaret Kimberley dissects the anti-Black policies of all 45 presidents of the world’s most successful white settler state.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for February 3, 2020
03 Feb 2020
Educational Mission: Raising Revolutionaries