Media And Culture

Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Ocasio-Cortez and the Left
04 Jul 2018
“Ocasio-Cortez deserves credit for beating a corrupt but powerful system.”
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
When Democrats Aren’t the Least-Worst
04 Jul 2018
“The argument that anyone to the left of Donald Trump owes their vote to a Democrat has always been stupid and arrogant.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Deirdre Cooper Owens’ “Medical Bondage”
04 Jul 2018
“American gynecology and obstetrics is intimately bound to American slavery.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Protest for Black People
27 Jun 2018
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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Anne Garland Mahler’s "From the Tricontinental to the Global South"
27 Jun 2018
“Tricontinentalism was deeply rooted in a long tradition of black internationalist thought.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Modern Black Codes and the Cops That Enforce Them
27 Jun 2018
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”
Greg Palast
Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
27 Jun 2018
“The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shane Maddock’s “Nuclear Apartheid”
20 Jun 2018
“Ultimately, the surest way to reduce the risk of nuclear war is to eliminate nuclear weapons.”
Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
Nicaragua: Open Letter to Amnesty International
20 Jun 2018
“Amnesty International is complicit in what future foreign intervention might fall upon the Nicaraguan people.”
Ken Peeples
US Criminal Justice: Why the Two-Tiered Justice System is Really THREE-Tiered
20 Jun 2018
“Mass incarceration and selective enforcement of laws is a conscious decisionin this country.”