Media And Culture

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
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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.
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.