Media And Culture

Ashon Crawley and Roberto Sirvent
Call for Submissions: Abolition Journal’s Special Issue on “Spirituality and Abolition”
22 Aug 2018
This Call for Submission asks the question: what can prison abolition, and other abolitions, teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment?
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’ “The Extractive Zone”
22 Aug 2018
The view that we have no future allows those on the planet with privilege to continue with their ideology of disposability.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julietta Singh’s “Unthinking Mastery”
22 Aug 2018
Singh’s book argues that we have yet to understand critically and dynamically how dangerous all forms and practices of mastery are.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Aretha Rejoins “Celestial Choir”
20 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal on the passing of Black music great Aretha Franklin: “She returns to the celestial choir after 76 summers of earthly life.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Underground Fugitives Foresaw US Decline and Repression
20 Aug 2018
The underground radicals of the 1960s and 70s were prescient in their political analysis, according to Stephen Dillon, author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
New Study Reveals Old Fact: Black Male Youth Feel Threatened
16 Aug 2018
“The whiter the neighborhood they entered, the less safe Black boys felt.”
Mark P. Fancher
Rebellion on the NFL Plantation
15 Aug 2018
“An alternative league would be the antithesis of the NFL and also take its cue from ‘Bingo Long’s Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.’”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Lies of American Exceptionalism
14 Aug 2018
Corporate media claim the economy is “booming” even though “we still don’t have as many jobs as existed” before the 2008 crash, said BAR contributor Danny Haiphong, one of the auth
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Martial Law By Other Means: Corporate Strangulation of Dissent
09 Aug 2018
“The ‘hate speech’ trick, in practice, rewards Black people’s occupiers and abusers (the police) and renders voices of protest illegitimate and mute.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Russiagate Crusaders Don’t Want Democracy, Just War
08 Aug 2018
“No political movement in the US exists to stop the Deep State from suppressing the content and ideology of Black Agenda Report or even Black Lives Matter as agents of the Kremlin.”