Media And Culture

Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
How Donald Trump Rode in on “Dark Money”
01 Feb 2018
“It wasn’t the Russians that brought us Trump, but the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits.”
David Sheen
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld boosts Israel’s “shoot to kill” fantasy tours
01 Feb 2018
Jerry Seinfeld drew criticism earlier this month when it emerged that while in Israel to perform in Tel Aviv, the famous comedian visited an air force base and took his family to a tourist attracti
Horace G. Campbell
Hugh Masekela: No Room for Compromise
30 Jan 2018
“Up to the very end he was critical of the way in which the top leadership of the African National Congress had capitulated before international capital.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Beware of Amazon Bearing Corporate Gifts
29 Jan 2018
Greg LeRoy, of Good Jobs First, warns the remaining 20 cities bidding to become Amazon’s second headquarters not to believe the corporation’s promises of $5 billion in investments
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Robert Mercer Rules
24 Jan 2018
“An ultra-rich right winger put Trump in the White House and now controls the country’s political agenda.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Caucus’ “New Class”: Worthless, Warmongering Servants of Empire
18 Jan 2018
“The Democrats have perverted the electoral franchise of the nation’s most progressive constituency to the service of a global war machine and an all-pervasive national security state.”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
17 Jan 2018
“Republicans and Democrats alike are willing to turn over government coffers to Bezos and his ilk and the rights of the people be damned.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Mark New Orleans’ 300th Birthday
16 Jan 2018
Dr Clyde Robertson will oversee three days of events marking three centuries of Black experience in New Orleans, beginning January 18.
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia: 36 Years Behind Bars
16 Jan 2018
The nation’s best known political prisoner is locked in a complex legal battle that might overturn his 1982 conviction in the death of a Philadelphia cop.
Nellie Bailiey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of January 9, 2018
10 Jan 2018
Omail Yeshitela reminds us to hold up our political prisoners. Nabil Hasseim explains how activists must adjest to the censored and circumscribed net.