Media And Culture

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jim Crow Still Lives in Hollywood
19 Aug 2019
The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erig
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Isn’t Special: All US Presidents Support White Supremacy
19 Aug 2019
William C Anderson, author of a recent article titled, “Using Patriotism to Deflect Racism is a Deadly Mistake,” said “the Oval Office is quite familiar” with white supremacists li
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist
15 Aug 2019
Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not capitalist rule, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democratic Party must stop him.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
William The Redactor
14 Aug 2019
William The Redactor will get to the bottom of it…
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture
14 Aug 2019
“Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nathan Schneider’s “Everything for Everyone”
14 Aug 2019
Cooperation is a radical model that could fundamentally reorient our economy toward democracy.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge’s “The Fire Now”
14 Aug 2019
A new book highlights what contemporary prohibitions on Black life look like in various geographical and socio-political spaces.
Matthew Quest
Distinguished Black Scholar Writes Biography of Jefferson for the Age of Trump
14 Aug 2019
In the Age of Trump, it could be said that all interpreters of Jefferson and US History have their own “alternative facts.”
Derecka Purnell
Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
14 Aug 2019
White supremacist killers in the U.S. are simply implementing on a local level what their government does across the globe.
Zanga Chimombo
Ancient Eugenicists
14 Aug 2019
Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.”