Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
B’more Ferguson than Commander-in-Chief, AG or CBC…
06 May 2015
by BAR Poet-inResidence Raymond Nat Turner Obama’s song to Baltimore: Hey-hey, ya-ya/ la-la, ha-ha… Freddie’s dead/that’s what I said…”
Paul Street
Beyond Twelve Years a Slave
11 Mar 2015
by Paul Street At the heart of American history lies an essential truth: the U.S. became an economic superpower based on the super-exploitation of Black slaves, to whom it owes reparations. In his…
Selma: Black History According to Oprah
22 Jan 2015
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
December Surprise (Class struggle trumps Trail of Tricks)
17 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner With young, Black America’s sound New meaning to ‘boots on the ground!’ Like a ‘surge,’ chum-rushing the stage Declaring: The Ferguson Age!
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Black lives matter…(Too much to pimp on the Trail of Tricks)
10 Dec 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner So, why’s the War House Hosting you, our brilliant Black, Brown, Tan babies? Why’s the War House serenading You with cognitive dissonant Doo-Wop ‘Mistrust…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
…Come out the shadows and get Reich with some brew…
03 Dec 2014
by Raymond Nat Turner Reject cries for organization Dial down militant agitation Re-calibrate comments and remarks Empire’s prairie, your words are sparks…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
When the “verdict” drops
26 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Media white-out— …Wilson’s shots loudest heard?
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Fo’ an ignut-ass Facebook ‘friend’
20 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner The Drone Ranger, Deporter-in- Chief is a vocalist—ventriloquists Hands up his ass, making his Mouth move, a mechanical man Sitting on knees war profiteers…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Midterm…Mo’ Power to the People!
13 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner “Universal suffrage is thus the gauge of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the modern state; but that is…
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Black Is Back On Track
05 Nov 2014
by BAR poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner Taking up some slack Resisting an attack Off the mule’s back Out the cul-de-sac Trane back on track— BLACK IS BACK!