Related Stories
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Gus Griffin
Michael Oher’s story of exploitation is even worse than the white savior narrative presented by Hollywood.
Gus Griffin
Whether Super Bowl quarterbacks, or presidents, or police chiefs, unquestioned admiration of the "first Black" should come to an end.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this feature, we interview organizers, journalists, scholars, and athletes working at the intersection of sports and Black struggle.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this feature, we interview organizers, journalists, scholars, and athletes working at the intersection of sports and Black struggle.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
This week, we interview Samantha N. Sheppard. Samantha N.
More Stories
- Jeff Haas and Dennis CunninghamChicago’s torture machine was both a real mechanism to produce confessions through pain, and a racist political instrument.
- Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments EditorThis week readers discussed the Democratic Party’s theater and the new arms race in outer space.
- Ashlie SandovalAn educator helps students navigate books that reveal Blackness as historicity, slavery as both obscured and ever-present, and the violence of race.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorIt takes many voices from a world of disciplines to tell the story of Paul Robeson, the supreme talent ad intellect that the US State attempted to erase from history.
- Global Information NetworkStories that embarrass high officials can earn reporters treason charges, imprisonment and death.