Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
If I had a hammer…
12 Oct 2017
My Dad drew blueprints, Built cabinets, designed ultra-modern kitchens, offices: Master of tile, electrical, plumbing, painting—imagining, mixing Colors he dreamed up
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Russiagate: The Lie Implodes
11 Oct 2017
The alleged “war” against U.S. “democracy” turns out to have been a cheap click-bait hustle.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: True Conspiracies
11 Oct 2017
“A distracted and hypnotized public won’t ask questions, make demands, or build movements.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Defining Independence at the Twilight of Empire
11 Oct 2017
“Movements for self-determination must be judged on the concrete pressure they place to either unite the oppressed or empower the imperialist order.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Who’s Hacking Who? Americans, Not Russians, Disenfranchise Millions of Blacks
11 Oct 2017
“The black vote has been ‘hacked’ and ‘interfered’ with for decades by both parties and is
Ken Morgan
Blacks, Las Vegas, and Gun Control
11 Oct 2017
“Black ex-soldiers and others defended their neighborhoods in America’s numerous race wars.”
M. Lee Stone
Lynching and Anti-Lynching: Art and Politics in the 1930s
11 Oct 2017
“There were nearly 5,000 persons lynched from 1882 through 1965.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Malcolm X and Liberation Theology
10 Oct 2017
“The theological imagination gives us the opportunity to reframe the conversation in the service of justice,” said Dr. Vincent Lloyd, who teaches theology at Villanova University.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Las Vegas Killings, Through the Lens of New Orleans, Detroit and San Juan
05 Oct 2017
“In a society that has historically denied the humanity of people of color, solidarity with other human beings does not come naturally.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Puerto Rico: Shock and Awe Exposing Capitalism’s Criminality
04 Oct 2017
Water is life…and even saliva’s in short supply… For drum-tight mouths, sandpaper throats. Yodeling bellies cave in on spines, as evil scents of sewage and death float in,