Media And Culture

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.”
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
North Korea Issue is Not De-Nuclearization But De-Colonization
13 Jun 2018
“The psychopathology of white supremacy invisibilizes the absurdity and illegitimacy of the United States being in a position to negotiate the fate of millions
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: A Tale of Two Summits
13 Jun 2018
“No one should be concerned because Trump ruined the party held by the biggest thieves.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson’s As Black as Resistance
12 Jun 2018
“Siccing law enforcement on Black people could arguably be understood as attempted murder.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kali Nicole Gross’s Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
12 Jun 2018
“I hope readers consider whether we need to reassess Black women’s relationship to violence.”