Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
29 May 2019
White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable.
Carol A. Stabile
How the Communist Blacklist Shaped the Entertainment Industry As We Know It
29 May 2019
Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Church Complicit in Marking Black Females as Hypersexual
27 May 2019
The Black church has preserved and fostered slavery-based views of Black female sexuality, causing Black women and girls to be labeled as “Jezebels,” said Tamura Lomax, author of&n
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Muellergate, A Report Review: Who Cooked Up the 'Russiagate' Conspiracy?
22 May 2019
Robert Mueller took two years to cook up a nothingburger, but we need to find out who conspired to wreck relations with Russia and censor the Left.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howelland Jessica González-Rojas
How the Promise of Roe v. Wade Left Women of Color Behind
22 May 2019
Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes, who also have the most to lose.
Earl Hazell
MJ/Kelly, Wynton/West: Tour Guides of the House of Peter Pan
22 May 2019
An opera singer and artistic director sees the Black male genius as a window to America’s dark side.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Noura Erakat’s “Justice for Some”
22 May 2019
Sometimes what passes for international law can lead to unfair outcomes, as the mandate that facilitated the creation of Israel on Palestinian land.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Greg Shupak’s “The Wrong Story”
22 May 2019
American maneuvers in the Middle East have little to do with culture or religion and everything to do with capitalism.
Lucas Koerner.and Ricardo Vaz
Venezuela Media Far More Diverse Than US
22 May 2019
Not only is the Venezuelan press free to criticize the government, the opposition dominates the media and uses it to foment coups.
This Is Hell , Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Fake News Empire: Unlearning the Lies at the Heart of American ideology.
22 May 2019
Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong examines the lies at the root of the story America tells itself - as the corporate media obscures the reality of social relations at the base of American power,