Media And Culture

Mark P. Fancher
Give No Thanks for Settlers’ Savagery
27 Nov 2019
The peculiar national holiday is a celebration of white settler conquest – a whitewashing of unspeakable crimes.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
27 Nov 2019
The mythology that Thanksgiving nurtures is itself inherently evil.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Phillip’s “The Be-Bop Barbarians”
27 Nov 2019
This book looks at the collision of race and class in a repressive time, in this case the late 1950s.
Tiana Reid
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
27 Nov 2019
For me, the most generative way to read, the most thorough, is to teach a text, to read in communion with others.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Margaret Kimberley: US Government and Media Collude in Propaganda
26 Nov 2019
The US and corporate media lie about Washington’s regime change projects around the world and about the endemic theft of Black votes at home, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberl
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Ukrainegate Farce
20 Nov 2019
The Democrats are hoping that Ukrainegate will succeed where Russiagate failed and they can win the presidency without helping their voters.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicholas Jones’s “Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain”
20 Nov 2019
“Behaving, talking, and sounding too black”—will never be separate from larger issues and questions of language and race.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zachary Casey’s A Pedagogy of “Anticapitalist Antiracism”
20 Nov 2019
Many antiracist practices in schools are almost immediately coopted, privatized, and rendered ineffective.
Martha Waggoner
Marker Now Calls 1898 Violence in Wilmington a “Coup,” Not a “Race Riot”
20 Nov 2019
White Democrats burned and killed their way to power in what's viewed as the only successful coup d'etat in American history.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Hybrid Warfare in Bolivia and Beyond
13 Nov 2019
The violent coup in Bolivia, like all of Washington’s regime-change and dirty tricks operations, has been aided and abetted by corporate media’s masters of euphemism.