Media And Culture

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Liberal-FBI Love Fest Recalls 1950s
19 Feb 2018
The current liberal and “progressive” love affair with the FBI “is a way of affirming the status quo,” in which both Democrats and Republicans are participants, said scholar Ward Churchill
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
The Underground Struggle Continues
19 Feb 2018
Shannon Jones and her comrades in Bronxites for NYPD Accountability have taken the struggle against police repression underground, into the subway system, where they encourage folk
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia on Rule of “the Good Ol’ Boys”
19 Feb 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, told audiences for his Prison Radio broadcast that white supremacy really means white MALE supremacy.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Prepares Armed Intervention in Venezuela
19 Feb 2018
Ajamu Baraka, lead organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace, believes the U.S. is actively preparing a military intervention against the elected government of Venezuela.
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
On the Black Panther Movie and the Limits of Our Imagination
15 Feb 2018
"...comics and sci fi brought to us by capitalist corporate media fail to imagine what a better world, or even the struggle to get there might look like"
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Lives Matter in the Public Schools
13 Feb 2018
Teachers in public schools around the country held a “Black Lives Matter Week of Action,” last week, demanding an end to “zero tolerance” student disciplinary policies, the hiring of more Black tea
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
In Tribute to Black Political Prisoners
06 Feb 2018
“They are the unspoken, invisible and buried-alive legacy of the revolutionary movements of the 1960s and 70s that were neutralized by the FBI, local police, courts and the corporate media, by way
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Left Lacks Class Consciousness
06 Feb 2018
“Every issue in U.S. society is shaped in a white supremacist fashion,” according to activist and scholar Jeffrey B.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Whoppers Of Boss Tweet: Our Poet Answers Trump's 2018 State of the Union
01 Feb 2018
A thief a thug Clown in a rug A tweet deceit A lie a cheat— Embellish, embroider: a lying disorder…
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware of Amazon Bearing Corporate Gifts
29 Jan 2018
Greg LeRoy, of Good Jobs First, warns the remaining 20 cities bidding to become Amazon’s second headquarters not to believe the corporation’s promises of $5 billion in investments