Media And Culture

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Phony Progressives Follow Trump Lead on Venezuela
14 Oct 2019
So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery
14 Oct 2019
The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Case for Demolishing Facebook
08 Oct 2019
Facebook has become a tool of social control and the Deep State -- the world’s biggest monopolizer of human thought.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Pelosi Slow to Impeach Trump, But Quick to Collaborate With Him
07 Oct 2019
Shahid Buttar, a lifelong activist who is trying to unseat Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi in her home district of San Francisco, says Pelosi “has actively enabled” the Trump administration by
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to "Fake News” Hysteria
23 Sep 2019
The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Schools are a “Carceral” and “Punitive Landscape”
16 Sep 2019
For students of color in the US, schooling has long been a “carceral condition,” said Connie Wun, a researcher and advocate for women and girls, who wrote an influential artic
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Blacks Pay High Price for Bad Healthcare
16 Sep 2019
Dr Leslie Hinkson, author of “Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine,” said Black people “get bad care, and that not only leads to further undermining of their health,
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Great Contradiction” of US Incarceration
10 Sep 2019
Donte Mitchell, a longtime prisoner of the State of New York, finds essential truths in the poem, “The Great Contradiction,” as it applies to the two million prisoners in US.
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Slavery is Model for US Prison Book-Banning
10 Sep 2019
Although First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression apply to prisoners, the “catch is that these rights can be restricted in the interest of security,” said Professor Brittany Friedman, a
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
FBI Terror "Watch List” is Unconstitutional
10 Sep 2019
“The US has always had a watchlist,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, following a federal judge’s ruling that the FBI’s anti-terror Watch List is unconstitutional.