Media And Culture

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....
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
For the Planet and Humanity to Survive / can't make this up
19 Apr 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner This week our poet in residence offers a brief meditations upon where and what sorts of bombing ought to be allowed, if any, and upon the lapse of White…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Blitzkrieg
08 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Blows and kicks are raining thick and fast, though many miss their mark their mark. But the intention of the 45th president is plainly to take us…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Make America Great Again
01 Mar 2017
by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner Unlike the president, our poet is firmly grounded in the history as well as the here and now of America. Here is his prescription for what it will take to…
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Roland Martin: That Hustla Ova There Tryna Sell Us School Privatization
09 Feb 2017
Roland Martin pretends to be a journalist. But what does a guy do when the one percent won't pay for an informed public? Roland is a hustla for hire, and he's found a dependable set of clients.