Media And Culture

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Macarena Gómez-Barris’s “Beyond the Pink Tide“and Harsha Walia’s “Undoing Border Imperialism”
12 Dec 2018
Our authors explore “how to live decolonial thought-action” and imagine a world without borders.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Anti-Russian Hysteria Makes Americans Stupid
10 Dec 2018
Not only have Russiagate-mongers “instilled fear of Russia as an enemy, but also a seemingly omnipotent enemy that can swing U.S.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
All US Presidents, Living and Dead, are War Criminals
06 Dec 2018
Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Mueller, Manafort and Assange
05 Dec 2018
The Mueller investigation much more resembles a propaganda campaign whose goal is neither truth nor justice, but vilification of Russia in the pursuit of endless war.
Glenn Greenwald
CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Submits to Right-Wing Mob
05 Dec 2018
Our discourse is now drowning under demands that speech be banned if powerful constituencies think it “hurtful” -- especially the Israel lobby.
Mychal Denzel Smith
The Gatekeepers: The Burden of the Black Public Intellectual
05 Dec 2018
Black intellectuals wind up offering mainly white audiences a “foreign experience” to savor from a comfortable distance.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Jason Borge’s “Tropical Riffs“ and John Gennari’s “Flavor and Soul”
05 Dec 2018
Our authors explore how jazz once proved the “border-hopping mobility” of African American culture, and arenas of conflict and collaboration between Blacks and Italian-Americans.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Activists Demand Sanders Take Stand Against Militarism
03 Dec 2018
David Swanson, one of 100 activists and intellectuals that sent an open letter calling on Senator Bernie Sanders to finally tackle the US war budget, said “It’s incoherent to have
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
28 Nov 2018
This week readers share their reflections on White America beyond its borders, challenge one writer’s take on Russiagate, and give their take on spirituality in the Black movement.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Bernie Sanders Puts Forward a Program That Could Split the Democratic Party
28 Nov 2018
Bernie Sanders has opened his 2020 campaign with a 10-point program that could bust the Democratic Party wide open – which would be best thing Bernie could do for the world.