Media And Culture

Mychal Denzel Smith
The Gatekeepers: The Burden of the Black Public Intellectual
05 Dec 2018
Black intellectuals wind up offering mainly white audiences a “foreign experience” to savor from a comfortable distance.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jason Borge’s “Tropical Riffs“ and John Gennari’s “Flavor and Soul”
05 Dec 2018
Our authors explore how jazz once proved the “border-hopping mobility” of African American culture, and arenas of conflict and collaboration between Blacks and Italian-Americans.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Activists Demand Sanders Take Stand Against Militarism
03 Dec 2018
David Swanson, one of 100 activists and intellectuals that sent an open letter calling on Senator Bernie Sanders to finally tackle the US war budget, said “It’s incoherent to have
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
28 Nov 2018
This week readers share their reflections on White America beyond its borders, challenge one writer’s take on Russiagate, and give their take on spirituality in the Black movement.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Sanders Puts Forward a Program That Could Split the Democratic Party
28 Nov 2018
Bernie Sanders has opened his 2020 campaign with a 10-point program that could bust the Democratic Party wide open – which would be best thing Bernie could do for the world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Keisha Lindsay’s “In a Classroom of Their Own”and Dixa Ramirez’s “Colonial Phantoms”
27 Nov 2018
Our authors address global anti-Blackness and the particular Dominican Republic variety, and examine the pros and cons of all black male schooling.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Abolition Spotlight Editor
BAR Abolition Spotlight: Derecka Purnell
27 Nov 2018
Police abolitionists “want a society that works to eliminate harm and promote liberation and self-determination.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Russiagate is “The Big Lie”
27 Nov 2018
With the CIA on point, U.S. militarists are implementing Joseph Goebbel’s formula to reignite the Cold War.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Julian Assange in US Intel’s Company Town
20 Nov 2018
The Trump Justice Department seems to be preparing to do what the Obama Justice Department would not do: put Julian Assange on trial.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of November 19, 2018
19 Nov 2018