Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter Gelderloos’s “Worshiping Power”
18 Dec 2019
The anarchist author maintains that the only thing the state “is superior at is conquest.”
Casey Cep
The Legacy of a Radical Black Newspaperman
18 Dec 2019
William Monroe Trotter insisted that protest and civil disobedience were the only effective remedies for racial discrimination.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Issue-Less Impeachment: The Corporate Democrats Stand for Nothing, So They Impeach for Nothing
12 Dec 2019
The corporate Democrats are effectively exonerating themselves and their Republican brethren of the full spectrum of lawlessness that is everyday politics in the belly of the racist, imperial beast
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adeline Masquelier’s “Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger”
11 Dec 2019
Young men in Niger meet at fadas to figure out what to do with their lives under uncaring global capitalism.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Rastafarians Were Key to Black Freedom Movement
10 Dec 2019
The Jamaica-birthed Rastafarian movement played a key role in the emergence of a global movement for African liberation, said Daive Dunkley, professor of Black Studies at the
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Lawless Judges and Prosecutors Block Mumia’s Road to Freedom
10 Dec 2019
Linn Washington, the Philadelphia-based legal scholar, told a New York City teach-in in support of Mumia Abu Jamal that the nation’s best known political prisoner would be free alr
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Support for Medicare for All is a “National Consensus”
10 Dec 2019
“When an issue gets to the point where it has a national consensus behind it,” as does Medicare for All, “the people who profit from the system will do all they can to stop it,” said K
BAR Contributing Editor Danny Haiphong
Colin Kaepernick Shows that American Innocence is a White Supremacist Sport
04 Dec 2019
The Black struggle for dignity and self-determination will forever be criminalized as a problem by the white elite and their hirelings in the Black misleadership class.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
04 Dec 2019
This time readers talked about overcoming ingrained racism and the possibilities of a Bernie Sanders presidency. We share letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Leah Vernon’s “Unashamed”
04 Dec 2019
A coming of age story of a Black Muslim girl living in America during trying social and political times.