Media And Culture

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Nobody Gets Liberated Until the Defeat of the Plutocrats
24 Oct 2019
The Lords of Capital commission their politicians and media servants to spin lies all day long, because every fact of capitalist life demands the overthrow of the system.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Return of Hillary Clinton
23 Oct 2019
It’s not clear if smear-mongering Clinton is running for president, or just fleeing reality. “Her reappearance spells disaster for the Democratic Party.”
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.”