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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.
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
Los Angeles Teachers Use the Old Successful Organizing Methods
14 Feb 2019
Like the 2006 strike of 30,000 NYC transit workers, and the 2012 strike of 30,000 Chicago teachers, the 2019 Los Angeles teacher strike made the lives of tens and hundreds of thousands of ordinary
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
chief
02 Jan 2019
one of those sweltering summer nights, City of Angels, run by devils… Cruising Imperial Highway heading westbound to the water when a newsflash interrupted