Media And Culture

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Atty General Jeff Sessions Stifles Dissent
29 Aug 2017
In seeking the identities of 1.3 million visitors to a web site for protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration, last January, Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department is “trying to silence and chill and
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The “Curtain Falls” on Dick Gregory
29 Aug 2017
Comedian and social activist Dick Gregory was targeted for surveillance and disruption by the COINTELPRO.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Kaepernick and True Protest
24 Aug 2017
Freedom Rider: Kaepernick and True Protest by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
It's Getting Real – Google Censors the Left. And Us.
03 Aug 2017
Conclusive evidence exists that Google is suppressing public access to socialist and left wing websites, almost certainly including Black Agenda Report. In fact, Black Agenda Report is by all…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Poem For Zigi
05 Jul 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week's offering from BAR's poet in residence was also published this week at Dissident Voice.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Look Away, Look Away....
28 Jun 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner For us living in the US, our poet reminds us, imperial atrocities are at worst collateral damage, and most often invisible. Only when they come into sight…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
When I Grow Up…
30 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Ralph Pointer, husband of the recently deceased peoples lawyer and political prisoner Lynne Stewart is an accomplished freedom fighter in his own right. A…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Ra Was Right
24 May 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Some artists write poems and novels. Others paint and perform. Some build imaginary worlds you can immerse and lose yourself in. Some…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
2 Poems - About How and Why Some Things Work. And Some Others Don't
10 May 2017
By BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner In two works of poetry this week, Turner offers cogent observations on two phenomena, one that pretty much works as intended, and another enterprise that…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Big Lie Goliath
26 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner On the presence, and likely not the passing of Bill O'Reilly....