Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Gary Dorrien’s“The New Abolition”
20 Mar 2019
The founder of Black social gospel fought hard for their right to combine racial justice politics and progressive theology in black church contexts.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Particularities of Black Disability
18 Mar 2019
Vilissa Thompson fights to make sure that Black disabled people’s lives matter, too. A social worker and disabilities activist, Thompson is the creator of “Ramp You
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
18 Mar 2019
Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Indefensible Israeli Apartheid State
18 Mar 2019
“We’re seeing a crumbling of Israel’s ability to defend and promote the apartheid state,” said political analyst Chris Hedges. Rep.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Justice and Paul Manafort
13 Mar 2019
Now that Trump’s sleazy associates are facing prison, lots of Democrats that never gave a damn about mass Black incarceration are self-righteously blasting the criminal injustice system.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Chelsea Manning Defies Secret Grand Jury, Julian Assange Scoops Michael Cohen
13 Mar 2019
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, whose confinement in Ecuador's London embassy puts the lie to much of the Russiagate fantasy.
Ryan Grim
Bernie Sanders and Black Democratic Primary Voters
13 Mar 2019
Bernie Sanders is slightly more popular among black Democratic voters than white ones.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
South African Sex Workers Embrace Feminism
12 Mar 2019
By studying feminism, sex workers learned “that self-identification of being a feminist actually strengthened our sex worker rights politics,” said Nkozo Yingwana, a doctoral
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Black Stake in the Green New Deal
07 Mar 2019
Black people should see the Green New Deal as an arena of struggle for self-determination, communal repair, and justice-creation.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Russiagate and Democratic Defeat
06 Mar 2019
It should now be clear to all honest and sane people that the only collusion was between the corporate media and the Democratic Party to spin a phony tale.