Media And Culture

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
White Supremacy Lite Wins the Prize
10 Nov 2020
The contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was about how best to preserve whiteness, said Dr Johnny Williams, professor of Sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticu
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rubble Kings: How the Violence Stopped and Hip Hop Emerged in the South Bronx
04 Nov 2020
A fact-based, crowd-funded film on urban devastation and gang warfare in the South Bronx packs a bigger political punch than the cult classic, The Warriors.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Dean Spade’s “Mutual Aid”
04 Nov 2020
Mutual aid work is part of actually addressing survival needs right now, and getting to the root causes of problems.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of November 2, 2020
03 Nov 2020
Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Mumia on 2020 Elections
03 Nov 2020
The polls were wrong in 2016, and they may be wrong this year, too, said Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay for Prison Radio.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Anti-Queerness in Africa is Complicated
03 Nov 2020
Thirty African countries have laws against homosexuality, but debate still rages over whether homophobia is endemic to Africa or a European import.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday
29 Oct 2020
Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bankrolling blu klux klans?
28 Oct 2020
Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Danielle Morgan’s “Laughing to Keep From Dying”
28 Oct 2020
There is nothing strange about Black folks laughing at the sheer immensity of ways we can die.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
Health Justice and Black Liberation: Antoine Johnson
28 Oct 2020
We have to consume things with Black liberation and environmental justice in mind.