Media And Culture

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis
02 Feb 2021
The US billionaire class has grown at unprecedented speed during the pandemic and economic crises, increasing their wealth by over a trillion dollars and adding 46 new oligarchs to their numbers, a
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Pro-Biden Propaganda
27 Jan 2021
The Democratic Party and its corporate media have already white-washed Biden, and nothing will be demanded of him except that he not be Trump.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
First 100 Daze: A ‘new’ dance craze
27 Jan 2021
Everybody’s wild ‘bout this ‘new’ dance craze— this lewd, crude dance called “The 1st 100 Daze…” Here come Ol’ Blak Schmo and Ladee Blu— listen up—they’re gonna teach it to you:
Mary Retta
We Have To Stop Valorizing Black Cops
27 Jan 2021
The purpose of policing––to jail and kill Black folks––remains the same regardless of the officers’ race.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
27 Jan 2021
This week our readers talked about the weakness of the U.S. left, the storming of the Capitol, and the crisis of U.S. imperialism.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maurice Rafael Magaña’s “Cartographies of Youth Resistance”
27 Jan 2021
Activist youth who weave deep histories of resistance together with anarchist, autonomous, and decolonial politics and urban culture.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Andrea Allen’s “Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships”
27 Jan 2021
Even those who are significantly marginalized act in ways that, unfortunately, inflict pain on others.
Jacob Whiton
Where Trumpism Lives
27 Jan 2021
Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs – not by economic despair in rural America.
Khalil Martin
Encoding Anti-Blackness: Castration in the Digital Age
27 Jan 2021
El Negro de WhatsApp outgrew the category of prank to become “the biggest meme produced by social media culture in our country.”
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Trump as Othello in a Corporate Theater
21 Jan 2021
Trump the straw man has finally been knocked down, giving the Democrats a victory that costs their corporate masters nothing.