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Lexis-Olivier Ray
Black People Make Up 75% Of All Weed Arrests At LAX, Data Shows
16 Apr 2025
Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio 2.7.2025
07 Feb 2025
This week, we speak to a journalist about the recent fires in Los Angeles County that destroyed the lives and homes of many, including a Black community located in Altadena. First, we get an update…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Thandisizwe Chimurenga on the Los Angeles Fire and Black Politics
07 Feb 2025
Thandisizwe Chimurenga is a Los Angeles-based journalist and host of RootWork, which can be seen on Black Liberation Media’s YouTube channel. She joins us from Los Angeles to discuss the impact of…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The fire this time … (as Amiri tolt me)
29 Jan 2025
"The fire this time … (as Amiri tolt me)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Saturday Mornings
29 Mar 2023
Saturday Mornings
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Scouting
04 Jan 2023
Scouting day dreaming, dreaming, anticipating a Hollywood Bowl where some master painter splashed stars all over night’s navy blue canvas…
Quetzal Cáceres
The Rot of LA’s Neoliberal Democratic Party Politics
26 Oct 2022
The recording of racist remarks by Los Angeles politicians is the tip of a neo-liberal iceberg of political corruption, and the Black political class are of no use to their constituents.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
We were L.A.—way before they…
19 Oct 2022
“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James Baldwin
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Grandstanding: Mayoral Candidate Karen Bass Says She Can Solve LA’s Homelessness Crisis
27 Jul 2022
As the late Glen Ford said, the Black misleadership class has no shame. Congresswoman Karen Bass's campaign for mayor of Los Angeles is full of empty promises. She proposes nothing that would…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bye, Big Sis
11 May 2022
Memories of the late Gael Davis, Los Angeles activist, organizer and actress.