Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
1st 100 Days— Portland
16 Sep 2020
I have a friend—some- time bandmate—Daily… Whining, wringing his hands. Distressed and depressed— anxious and agitated—he Knows nuclear war and Armageddon are on the
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
16 Sep 2020
This week Ibram X. Kendi, Toussaint Louverture, community control of the police, and the trial of Julian Assange were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Samantha Pinto’s Book, “Infamous Bodies”
16 Sep 2020
The author examines the lives of five Black female historical figures and challenges some deeply-held ideas about Black women in politics
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
First and Foremost, Malcolm X Was “Black Minded”
15 Sep 2020
If he were alive today, Malcolm X “would be a harsh and clear critic of everything that’s happening” under the Black Lives Matter banner, said Michael Sawyer, a professor of Race, Ethnicity, a
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The NBA Strike Brings the Counterinsurgency War on Black Liberation Movement to Basketball
09 Sep 2020
When NBA players threatened to disrupt business as usual the ruling class deployed perhaps its most effective weapon of counterinsurgency: Barack Obama.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Olympics of Lying: Lipsticking a pig
09 Sep 2020
Red, white, blue burning crosses light up Capitalist Hill, War House, White Supreme Court sky. A 500 ft phallic symbol middle fingers poor
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
09 Sep 2020
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: R.A. Judy’s Book, “Sentient Flesh”
09 Sep 2020
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jasmine Mitchell‘s “Imagining the Mulatta”
09 Sep 2020
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
John Pilger
The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
09 Sep 2020
The collusion of powers wants to bury Julian alive in their war on the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and democracy.