Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Creating a “De-Colonized” Ethnography
01 Apr 2019
The social science of ethnology must be “de-colonized,” said Dr. Selina Makana, a Kenya-born scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, at Columbia
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Russiagate Implodes, Pleasing Trump But Leaving the Left in the Cold
28 Mar 2019
The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Julian Assange and Robert Mueller
27 Mar 2019
Russiagate has imploded, but the Democratic Party still wants to stifle dissent and make certain that there will be no Wikileaks in the future.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Pacifica Is a Grassroots Radio Lifeline: Let’s Keep It Together
20 Mar 2019
In many urban areas, Pacifica and its affiliates offer the only counter to the Republican/Democratic duopoly narratives.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
20 Mar 2019
The founder of Black social gospel fought hard for their right to combine racial justice politics and progressive theology in black church contexts.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Particularities of Black Disability
18 Mar 2019
Vilissa Thompson fights to make sure that Black disabled people’s lives matter, too. A social worker and disabilities activist, Thompson is the creator of “Ramp You
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
18 Mar 2019
Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Indefensible Israeli Apartheid State
18 Mar 2019
“We’re seeing a crumbling of Israel’s ability to defend and promote the apartheid state,” said political analyst Chris Hedges. Rep.