Media And Culture

Jake Johnson
Sanders Unveils Plan to “Fundamentally Transform” Criminal Legal System
21 Aug 2019
The presidential candidate calls for people to “stand together” to end the war on drugs and cut the prison population in half.
Wilmer J. Leon III
“Jay-Z” Did Not Sell Out, He Bought In
21 Aug 2019
Like the scorpion in the folk parable, it’s in Jay-Z’s nature to make a killing – at Kaepernick and the community’s expense.
Paul Street
Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
21 Aug 2019
Donald Trump is indeed a neofascist, but the US was built on a mass murderous white supremacism that, until recently, was unapologetically genocidal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 19, 2019
19 Aug 2019
Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference in St. Louis
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jim Crow Still Lives in Hollywood
19 Aug 2019
The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erig
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Isn’t Special: All US Presidents Support White Supremacy
19 Aug 2019
William C Anderson, author of a recent article titled, “Using Patriotism to Deflect Racism is a Deadly Mistake,” said “the Oval Office is quite familiar” with white supremacists li
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist
15 Aug 2019
Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not capitalist rule, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democratic Party must stop him.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
William The Redactor
14 Aug 2019
William The Redactor will get to the bottom of it…
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture
14 Aug 2019
“Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nathan Schneider’s “Everything for Everyone”
14 Aug 2019
Cooperation is a radical model that could fundamentally reorient our economy toward democracy.