Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Shane Vogel’s “Stolen Time”
10 Apr 2019
The 1950s calypso craze provided black performers with new occasions to intervene in the public sphere as well as new creative and financial opportunities.
Rob Smith
Julian Assange Threatened With Expulsion from Embassy
10 Apr 2019
Ecuador’s president appears to be using Assange as a bargaining chip for debt relief.
Дэвид Свонсон
Putin Claims to Have Sabotaged Mueller Report
03 Apr 2019
Trump could shoot Putin in the middle of Red Square and would still be seen as a Russian asset by true believers in CIA propaganda.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ruma Chopra’s “Almost Home”
03 Apr 2019
This is a story about the ways in which the Maroons positioned themselves within a powerful and expanding empire.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Paul Steinbeck’s “Message to Our Folks”
03 Apr 2019
The members of the Art Ensemble represented “five different articulations of Africanity.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Creating a “De-Colonized” Ethnography
01 Apr 2019
The social science of ethnology must be “de-colonized,” said Dr. Selina Makana, a Kenya-born scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, at Columbia
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Russiagate Implodes, Pleasing Trump But Leaving the Left in the Cold
28 Mar 2019
The “Deep State” escalated a dispute within the U.S. corporate electoral duopoly into a geopolitical crisis, an “attack on America”
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Julian Assange and Robert Mueller
27 Mar 2019
Russiagate has imploded, but the Democratic Party still wants to stifle dissent and make certain that there will be no Wikileaks in the future.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Pacifica Is a Grassroots Radio Lifeline: Let’s Keep It Together
20 Mar 2019
In many urban areas, Pacifica and its affiliates offer the only counter to the Republican/Democratic duopoly narratives.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tamura Lomax’s “Jezebel Unhinged”
20 Mar 2019
The jezebel discourse is reproduced in and circulated between the Black Church and black popular culture, making each a site of antiblack and sexist stereotypic cultivation and pornotropic gazing.