Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Eunsong Kim’s “gospel of regicide”and Juno Salazar Parreñas’ “Decolonizing Extinction”
09 Jan 2019
Our authors contemplate the “antiblack horizon” in Asian American imaginaries, and orangutans’ relationship to colonialism and white supremacy.
Jason Hickelby
How Britain Stole $45 Trillion From India And Lied About It
09 Jan 2019
British colonizers turned a scam for defrauding peasants into a parasitical relationship that made England rich and impoverished a subcontinent.
R. Divya Nair
The Influence Of Gandhian Socialism on Du Bois and King
09 Jan 2019
Two great icons of 20th century Black struggle found a valuable resource in Gandhi and his movement for national liberation.
Ellen Brown
Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks
09 Jan 2019
A universal income program can help correct the debt bubble problem without fear of “overheating” the economy.
Teodrose Fikre
The Diversity Hustle
09 Jan 2019
A merry-go-round that has different colors and genders of jackasses and elephants is pure deception.
Patrick Bond
South Africa Suffers Capitalist Crisis Déjà Vu
09 Jan 2019
The old guard of South Africa’s ruling party put on new clothes last year, and a new party of the working class finally made its debut.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A “Pathway to Freedom” for Mumia
08 Jan 2019
A recent court ruling that “there was, in fact, judicial bias” in denying Mumia Abu Jamal’s appeal of his conviction in the 1982 death of a cop shows that “this is a different moment in American hi
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Chairman: US System in Trouble
08 Jan 2019
“The entire system is held in high disregard,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela,” and that’s why you see the disappearance of the so-called ‘center’” in the tw
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Yes, White People Are Also Killed by the Mass Black Incarceration Regime
03 Jan 2019
The WSWS site has done a disservice to Marxism and to the Black Lives Matter movement with its ideologically driven study of police killings in the U.S., focusing on dead white people.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Elizabeth Warren and the Trap for Black Voters
02 Jan 2019
Whether Democrats are openly obstructionist corporatists like Pelosi, or liberal sounding like Warren, they will not consider any meaningful systemic reforms.