Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Cleveland Championship?
10 Jun 2015
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner BAR's poet in residence reminds us that Cleveland has been taking shots as well as making shots for a long time now...
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Blessed…
20 May 2015
by Raymond Nat Turner A poem to the purveyors of deathly cycles
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Broomstick by Boeing—she’s baaaaack!
13 May 2015
by BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner “A little poison,” in her depleted uranium The Iron Lady’s baaaack—in titanium! Some vile, nightmarish, dream-like crack But, it’s no dream—she’s…
Paul Street
A Racially Blind Night in the Life of the “P”BS Newshour
13 May 2015
by Paul Street The rich son of the owner of a major league baseball team seems to have a better understanding of race and class in America than the Black co-anchor of Public Television’s premier news…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
B’more Ferguson than Commander-in-Chief, AG or CBC…
06 May 2015
by BAR Poet-inResidence Raymond Nat Turner Obama’s song to Baltimore: Hey-hey, ya-ya/ la-la, ha-ha… Freddie’s dead/that’s what I said…”
Paul Street
Beyond Twelve Years a Slave
11 Mar 2015
by Paul Street At the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his…
Selma: Black History According to Oprah
22 Jan 2015
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
December Surprise (Class struggle trumps Trail of Tricks)
17 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner With young, Black America’s sound New meaning to ‘boots on the ground!’ Like a ‘surge,’ chum-rushing the stage Declaring: The Ferguson Age!
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Black lives matter…(Too much to pimp on the Trail of Tricks)
10 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner So, why’s the War House Hosting you, our brilliant Black, Brown, Tan babies? Why’s the War House serenading You with cognitive dissonant Doo-Wop ‘Mistrust…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
…Come out the shadows and get Reich with some brew…
03 Dec 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Reject cries for organization Dial down militant agitation Re-calibrate comments and remarks Empire’s prairie, your words are sparks…