Media And Culture

Adolph Reed , Cornel West
Joe Biden Wants Us to Forget His Past. We Won't
08 May 2019
Joe Biden is the purest example of the corporate Democrats that turned the party decisively towards war, austerity and race-baiting in a previous era.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
FBI Conflates Black Activism and ISIS
06 May 2019
Back in 2014, Black activists in Ferguson, Missouri “were called paranoid” when they suspected they were being surveiled by the FBI.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Color” Revolution USA
02 May 2019
The US press has routinely abused, disrespected and lied about Black, brown and yellow peoples and their heads of state, and now subjects its own top political figures to the same treatment.
Donna Murch
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
01 May 2019
The demonization of urban, nonwhite drug users played a crucial role in the opening of ‘white’ pharmaceutical markets in the 1990s.
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
01 May 2019
This week readers discussed the suppression of WikiLeaks, reactionary black politicians, and the racial roots of capitalism. We share letters for “
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Solidarity with Venezuela
01 May 2019
When the US targets a government for regime change it brings all its coercive forces into play: military threats, economic sanctions, media slander and treasonous Quislings from the theater of the
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
If Trump Wins in 2020, Thank Russiagate
01 May 2019
Leave it to the War Party to lose an election to a celebrity billionaire oligarch and then provide him with favorable conditions for a second-term.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Pentagon Manhunt for Julian Assange Preceded Swedish Rape Allegations
01 May 2019
The US government has disregarded due process and elemental honesty in pursuing its vendetta against Julian Assange.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Bénédicte Boisseron’s “Afro-Dog”
01 May 2019
Racialization in this country often goes through a disguised process of animalization.
Vincent Lloyd
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Achille Mbembe's "Critique of Black Reason" (Part 1)
01 May 2019
The challenge for Black Study is to hold up examples of blackness that evade capture by the thought and institutions of the West.