Media And Culture

Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Political Theology, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Limits of Social Democracy
23 Oct 2019
Universal equality has always run counter to the United States’ anti-Black and settler colonial roots.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Hillary Busts Tulsiasha Gabbardskaya and Jillia Steinakanova: What Could Go Wrong?
23 Oct 2019
With their Russiagate fantasies, the Democrats have done infinitely more to delegitimize US institutions of governance than any foreign power could dream to accomplish.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Karla Holloway’s “A Death in Harlem”
23 Oct 2019
This novel puts the “too often secreted issues of intraracial classism and colorism” up front and center, along with Black cop contradictions and color-coded witnesses.
Mindy Isser
Why I’m Voting No On UAW’s Deal With GM: A “Third-Tier” Worker
23 Oct 2019
How can a union tolerate three or four different “tiers” of workers, with different pay scales and rights, and then call for “solidarity”?
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poor, Black LGBTQ Youth Still Suffering
21 Oct 2019
Although LGBTQ communities have a much higher political profile than in the past, Mustafa Sullivan, director of FIERCE, an organization that builds leadership among LGBTQ yout
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Solidarity Never? The Battle for WBAI
16 Oct 2019
A radio station steeped in generations of progressive battles has, at least temporally, lost its voice.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kamari Maxine Clarke’s “Affective Justice”
16 Oct 2019
The International Criminal Court is justifiably suspect based on its prosecution mainly of Black people.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tryon Woods’ “Blackhood Against the Police Power”
16 Oct 2019
The suppression of black thought predates the dawn of the racial slave trade. “Policing is not what we think it is.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Kurds Rejoin Sovereign Syria – US Loses War Justification
15 Oct 2019
Washington has played its last lying card in Syria, where the superpower armed and financed lihadist head-choppers to fight its regime change war.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Corporate Domination is Central to Food Issues
14 Oct 2019
The lack of food outlets in Black neighborhoods is part of the larger reality of labor exploitation and corporate domination, according to Ashante Reese, professor of anthropo