Media And Culture

Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
For Fancy Miss Nancy
19 Dec 2018
Guess who I saw today, black and white photo, Marching, Montgomery from Selma, ‘65? Guess who I saw at my high school swingin’ the Trio; urging us to stay in school?
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
19 Dec 2018
Readers engaged us on questions of war, peace, and the ways forward for organized resistance.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
The Bolton Speech on Africa: A Case of the Wolf and the Foxes
19 Dec 2018
The Trump administration claims China and Russia are exploiting Africa, but US policy offers nothing but more guns, more bases and more subversion.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: UK and US PSYOP Collusion
19 Dec 2018
Russiagate hysteria is an international conspiracy, with British spooks spreading lies on three continents. Now Black Americans are slandered as “dupes” of Moscow.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Michelle Obama Slanders Black Men in Her Book, Adds to the Obama Family’s Long Anti-Black Tradition
19 Dec 2018
The Obamas are cashing in on their lifelong project to further the destruction of Black people, while blaming the victim.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
The People v. The Information Monopolies: Case Continued
19 Dec 2018
Democrats failed to get enough votes to repeal the FCC’s undoing of net neutrality, but there’s still time to change some member’s votes.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Julia Jordan-Zachery’s“Shadow Bodies“and Sabine Broeck’s “Gender and the Abjection of Blackness”
19 Dec 2018
Our authors examine how white feminism became “junior partner to enslavist capitalist patriarchy,” and how do we “resist silences that limit the span of democracy?”
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Green Book” – Not Our Story; His-Story, Their Fiction
19 Dec 2018
Hollywood does not hesitate to totally fictionalize, diminish and malign a Black historical figure, Dr Don Shirley, for its own white supremacist purposes.
Teodrose Fikre
Bigoted Paternalism Behind “Russians Targeted African-Americans” NY Times Article
19 Dec 2018
The Russiagate propagandists sound like the segregationists of yesteryear, warning of “outside agitators” trying to “stir up the Nigras.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
17 Dec 2018
US presidents may seem different from one another, in terms of rhetoric, “but they all have in common being committed to empire,” said Anthony DiMaggio,a political scientist a