Media And Culture

Tryon P. Woods
Putting Afro-Pessimism, Intersectionality, and Solidarity to Work
08 Aug 2018
“If the Movement for Black Lives can indirectly lead to an expanded sphere of safety for white women of a certain class status, with no commensurate enhanced protection for black people
Chip Gibbons and Boots Riley
An Interview With Boots Riley: “In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion”
08 Aug 2018
“I think the movement needs to organize the 93 percent of the work force that is not organized.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mehrsa Baradaran’s “The Color of Money”
08 Aug 2018
“’Black capitalism’ was a crucial part of President Nixon’s ‘southern strategy’ and the rhetoric and administration of his program is still intact.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Peter James Hudson’s “Bankers and Empire”
08 Aug 2018
“There can be no ‘black internationalism’ without an attack on imperialism and finance capitalism.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Fred Moten: The Black Social Self-View
06 Aug 2018
The constant denial of individual Black personhood that is a legacy of centuries of slavery has given us “a chance to organizer around something other than the debilitating and vicious notion of in
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Fascism
02 Aug 2018
“The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Trump and the Politics of Neoliberal Distraction
01 Aug 2018
“If Trump decides to ‘throw a whistle-blower in jail for trying to talk to a reporter, or gets the F.B.I.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft
01 Aug 2018
“The Democrats want our votes, but if we aren’t allowed to vote at all they pretend not to know.”
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
01 Aug 2018
“The meme of militant Black America has been allowed to cannibalise the broader traditions of resistance within which those militants were situated.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sylvia Chan-Malik’s “Being Muslim”
01 Aug 2018
“The book shows how deeply intertwined logics of anti-Muslim racism are with those of anti-Blackness.”