Media And Culture

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Phony Resistance Can’t Beat Trump
09 Jan 2019
At the midway point of the Trump presidency the Democrats have nothing to show in the way of meaningful resistance.
Roy S. Johnson
Angela Davis “Stunned” at Award Revocation, But Still Coming to Birmingham
09 Jan 2019
Davis joins a long list of scholars and activists who have been censored in efforts to silence debate on Israeli apartheid.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: "Mia Mingus”
09 Jan 2019
Prison abolition and reform are compatible “when reform is done in service of abolition." “State violence and intimate violence are deeply connected.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
09 Jan 2019
Our authors contemplate the “antiblack horizon” in Asian American imaginaries, and orangutans’ relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.
Jason Hickelby
How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It
09 Jan 2019
British colonizers turned a scam for defrauding peasants into a parasitical relationship that made England rich and impoverished a subcontinent.
R. Divya Nair
The Influence Of Gandhian Socialism on Du Bois and King
09 Jan 2019
Two great icons of 20th century Black struggle found a valuable resource in Gandhi and his movement for national liberation.
Ellen Brown
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
09 Jan 2019
A universal income program can help correct the debt bubble problem without fear of “overheating” the economy.
Teodrose Fikre
The Diversity Hustle
09 Jan 2019
A merry-go-round that has different colors and genders of jackasses and elephants is pure deception.
Patrick Bond
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
09 Jan 2019
The old guard of South Africa’s ruling party put on new clothes last year, and a new party of the working class finally made its debut.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A “Pathway to Freedom” for Mumia
08 Jan 2019
A recent court ruling that “there was, in fact, judicial bias” in denying Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his conviction in the 1982 death of a cop shows that “this is a different moment in American hi