Media And Culture

Patrick Walker
Climate Terrorism: The Politically Farsighted Way to Impeach Trump
05 Jun 2019
By focusing on climate terrorism, Democrats could show voters that they care more about the common good than their self-serving Russiagate narrative.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Chemical Attacks in Syria
29 May 2019
The corporate media is concealing a leaked UN agency report that shows Syrian government innocence in an alleged chemical attack.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Russiagate, Like Count Dracula, Will Never End
29 May 2019
Are the Democrats serious? Or just mortified, like most vampires, by the light of day?
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
29 May 2019
This week police brutality, the art of protesting, and the anti-war movement were on your minds. You wrote on “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Maryann Erigha’s “Hollywood Jim Crow”
29 May 2019
White supremacy in Hollywood operates on the premise that Black movies, directors, and stars are “unbankable”—or not profitable.
Carol A. Stabile
How the Communist Blacklist Shaped the Entertainment Industry As We Know It
29 May 2019
Avoid anything that could be construed as progressive or risk never working in television again.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Church Complicit in Marking Black Females as Hypersexual
27 May 2019
The Black church has preserved and fostered slavery-based views of Black female sexuality, causing Black women and girls to be labeled as “Jezebels,” said Tamura Lomax, author of&n
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Muellergate, A Report Review: Who Cooked Up the 'Russiagate' Conspiracy?
22 May 2019
Robert Mueller took two years to cook up a nothingburger, but we need to find out who conspired to wreck relations with Russia and censor the Left.
Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcela Howelland Jessica González-Rojas
How the Promise of Roe v. Wade Left Women of Color Behind
22 May 2019
Roe has never been full of promise for women of color, immigrant women and women with low incomes, who also have the most to lose.
Earl Hazell
MJ/Kelly, Wynton/West: Tour Guides of the House of Peter Pan
22 May 2019
An opera singer and artistic director sees the Black male genius as a window to America’s dark side.