BAR Book Forum

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Crystal Fleming’s “How to Be Less Stupid About Race”
19 Sep 2018
The racism of the larger society is internalized in us, including those of us who are Black and brown, and must be methodically confronted.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jeanne Theoharis’ “A More Beautiful and Terrible History”
12 Sep 2018
Today’s seekers of social justice need to grapple with what the legacies of past freedom fighters actually demand of us.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Lloyd’s “Black Natural Law”
12 Sep 2018
Black natural law allows us to identify the ideas of the powers that be, the ideas of the wealthy and the white, and demolish them.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: David Leonard’s “Playing While White”
05 Sep 2018
White athletes, coaches, media, and fans must become accomplices in the struggle for racial justice. “Sports produces and embodies the wages of whiteness.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Howard Bryant’s “The Heritage”
05 Sep 2018
The commercializing of the military and police is central to the selling of sports today, and protesting either has turned the athlete into an enemy of the state.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cell Phones Pull Back Curtain on Prison Conditions
03 Sep 2018
Prison officials across the country are apoplectic over inmate access to cell phones, partly because “it allows people that are incarcerated to serve as reporters, to broadcast firsthand what they
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Panthers Struggled for “Global Justice”
03 Sep 2018
The Black Panther Party “saw the world through a lens of global justice,” said Robyn Spencer, author of the new book, The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Gandhi and Fanon’s Shared Goals
27 Aug 2018
Whether by armed struggle or mass nonviolence, liberation movements seek to “elevate the colonized people to their proper status among humankind, and give way to a more equitable future, said
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Humanity Can Be Saved If We Listen to the Indigenous Peoples
27 Aug 2018
Climate activists should stop saying “the world will end, and we’re beyond the turning point,” said Macarena Gomez-Barris, author of The Extraction Zone: Social Ecologies and D
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’ “The Extractive Zone”
22 Aug 2018
The view that we have no future allows those on the planet with privilege to continue with their ideology of disposability.”