Media And Culture

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US “Founders” Were Not Liberators
03 Feb 2020
The founders of the United States intended to create a nation dominated by rich white men, and only the struggles of the oppressed have challenged these structures of power, said Dr Ge
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Progressive” Dems Ought to Divorce the Duopoly, Not Badger Greens
30 Jan 2020
The signers reveal themselves to be as fearful for the fate of the duopoly as the corporate shills they claim to oppose.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Negroes for Bloomberg
29 Jan 2020
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Safe-States Strategy from Hell: Greens Respond to Progressive Left Dems
29 Jan 2020
Some Greens may fall for the “anybody blue will do” appeal, but most will not.
Alice Speri
Cops and Spies Chase Blacks and Leftists While Violent Whites Grow Bolder
29 Jan 2020
The cops can’t find white terrorists in plain sight, but they have turned technology to the task of criminalizing Black and Left dissent.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Fikile Nxumalo’s “Decolonizing Place in Early Childhood Education”
29 Jan 2020
The author rejects ways of teaching that distort Black young people’s relationships with the natural world.
Earl Hazell
Blues for Jimmy: In Celebration of the Life of Jimmy Heath
29 Jan 2020
The author studied jazz composition and arranging under “a funny, smart-aleck, short, kind, genius composer and tenor sax player” – a musical giant.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom
23 Jan 2020
Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work
22 Jan 2020
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” -- a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
No, he did-ant—call her Pocahontas—did he?!
22 Jan 2020
"I’m a capitalist to my bones…” - Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-MA No, the dumb Don did-ant call Hocus-Pocus, “Pocahontas—“ did he?!