Media And Culture

Lee Fang
Kamala Harris First Won Office As ‘Law and Order’ Candidate
13 Feb 2019
“Harris’s first campaign reflected familiar tactics in an era of booming mass incarceration.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kia Caldwell’s “Health Equity in Brazil”
13 Feb 2019
Policies and laws promoting equity and equality of any type are under severe attack now in Brazil.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
13 Feb 2019
This week readers were eager to discuss anti-Russian war hysteria and the role of privatization in public education.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Political Geography of Feminism
11 Feb 2019
“African feminism searches for solutions “that are not rooted in colonial structures,” said Dr Alicia Decker, of Penn State University, co-director of the African Feminist Initiati
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline
07 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
“How I Lost by Hillary Clinton,” a Book Review
06 Feb 2019
Rich and manipulative people like Hillary Clinton and her DNC cohorts were defeated by their own emails. “You can expect her to run for president once again.”
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Venezuela and NATO, the Democratic Party is the “Assistance” Not the “Resistance” to Empire
06 Feb 2019
Black, working and poor people can expect no relief from Democrats, who will continue to divert the nation’s resources to foreign wars and coups.
Eric Blanc
Cory Booker Hates Public Schools
06 Feb 2019
Cory Booker rose to prominence as a fanatical backer of school privatization, yet poses as a friend of public education and teachers.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Msia Clark’s “Hip-Hop in Africa”
06 Feb 2019
The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katie Grimes’s “Fugitive Saints”
06 Feb 2019
The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.