Media And Culture

Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
11 Sep 2019
This week we discuss the rising popularity of socialism in the US, Bernie Sanders’ energy policy, and the electoral obstacles to electing a new Congress.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nadine Ehlers and Leslie Hinkson’s “Subprime Health”
11 Sep 2019
Race-based medicine in the US has solidified health inequality and is bound up with indebtedness.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Joseph Drexler-Dreis’s “Decolonial Love”
11 Sep 2019
Colonial relations of power and ways of classifying human persons that were essential to political colonialism have persisted.
Tory Russell
A Ferguson Organizer Reflects on the Aftermath
11 Sep 2019
We figured out pretty fast that hashtags don’t move white supremacists, and petitions don’t change policy for Black lives.
Anton Woronczuk
White Supremacy Tried to Kill Jazz. An Interview with Gerald Horne
11 Sep 2019
Viewing musicians as exploited workers and as beleaguered contractors helps contribute to a better understanding of their art form and art more generally.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Great Contradiction” of US Incarceration
10 Sep 2019
Donte Mitchell, a longtime prisoner of the State of New York, finds essential truths in the poem, “The Great Contradiction,” as it applies to the two million prisoners in US.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Slavery is Model for US Prison Book-Banning
10 Sep 2019
Although First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression apply to prisoners, the “catch is that these rights can be restricted in the interest of security,” said Professor Brittany Friedman, a
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
FBI Terror "Watch List” is Unconstitutional
10 Sep 2019
“The US has always had a watchlist,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, following a federal judge’s ruling that the FBI’s anti-terror Watch List is unconstitutional.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Green Party Gears Up for Eco-Socialism Conference
10 Sep 2019
Anita Rios, national co-chair of the Green Party, says the Democrat’s version of the Green New Deal is mostly “rhetoric,” while her party’s “eco-socialist agenda is the only path t
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine
10 Sep 2019
Jay-Z isn’t just trying to make another billion bucks by undermining Colin Kaepernick and the “take a knee” movement, said Louis Jefferson, funder of the San-Jose, California-