Media And Culture

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.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa!
02 Jan 2019
Paul Kagame’s troops most likely shot down a plane carrying two African presidents, igniting genocides that killed millions — but the Rwandan President has never been charged.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
02 Jan 2019
Our Readers reacted to challenges to “niceness” in American society and the history behind Kwanzaa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Traci West’s“Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality and GerShun Avilez’s “Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism”
02 Jan 2019
Our authors reject the contention that Black nationalism was mostly concerned with upholding traditional patriarchy and heterosexuality -- evils that are in fact buttressed by many contemporary “Ch
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
chief
02 Jan 2019
one of those sweltering summer nights, City of Angels, run by devils… Cruising Imperial Highway heading westbound to the water when a newsflash interrupted
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Gang Activity is False Cover for Mass NYC Arrests
31 Dec 2018
Mass arrests targeting hundreds of young Black and brown New Yorkers are based on false premises and hyped-up evidence, said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project (
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Americans Not Really So “Nice”
24 Dec 2018
”American Niceness” can be deeply anti-social, according to the author of a book by the same name.