Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Bianca Williams’ The Pursuit of Happiness
06 Jun 2018
“It is crucial for us to understand that what we feel as Black peoples provides useful data that can be turned into critical analysis.”
Jon Jeter
Racist Roseanne Was Way Off: Valerie Jarrett Hailed from Planet of the Rich
06 Jun 2018
“Throughout her public life, Jarrett served the Empire and not the people, African-Americans least of all.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: When Uncle Tom Falls
30 May 2018
“Fryer posited that perhaps black people are genetically inferior to whites or that black children don’t succeed in school for the same reason.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
As Sharpton Drooled Over Royals, Righteous Folks Celebrated the Real Heroes of May 19th
30 May 2018
“The revolutionary heroes of May 19th would find Sharpton and his clique not just repulsive, but criminal as well.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nell Painter’s Old in Art School
30 May 2018
“The ideology I’d like to dismantle makes every black person the same as every other black person, assumed to be a man or woman under the age of sixty-five.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sami Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined
30 May 2018
“Concepts of able-mindedness are historically based within gender and racial norms of masculinity and whiteness—with damaging and deadly results for black people.”
Kevin Zeese
Venezuela: The Media Blockade
30 May 2018
“US sanctions have had the effect of causing the people to blame the United States and unify around Maduro and the current government.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Piece Process
23 May 2018
Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze it’s a joy-stick; a video game to him He has orders to “light up” anything that moves; “Mow the grass, one blade at a time…” “One shot,
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black Caucus Sells Out Its Constituents Again – to the Cops
23 May 2018
“This bill will be received as yet another attack on these communities and threatens to exacerbate what is already a discriminatory system of mass incarceratio
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: CIA and FBI Election Interference
23 May 2018
“The same forces which went after Trump will come after anyone else who is seen as a danger to the system.”