Media And Culture

Mark P. Fancher
Were Glen Ford and T. Thomas Fortune the Same Brother?
04 Aug 2021
Glen Ford followed in the footsteps of another legendary Black journalist.
André Brock Jr.
BAR Book Forum: André Brock Jr.’s “Distributed Blackness”
15 Jul 2021
The online aggregation and coherence of Blackness online, absent Black bodies, is what inspired the author’s book.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kyla Schuller’s Book, “The Biopolitics of Feeling”
15 Jul 2021
The very physical category of femaleness was articulated by feminists and non-feminists alike as the sole property of whiteness in the 19th century,
Gary Peller
Critical Race Theory Opponents Are Just Proving Our Point For Us
08 Jul 2021
Conservative activists have branded all race reform efforts in education and employment as CRT.
Karen Cook Bell
Escape as Resistance for Enslaved Women During the American Revolution
08 Jul 2021
Motherhood often served as a catalyst for attempted escape during the American Revolution.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th
01 Jul 2021
The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.”
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: Internal Security Act of 1950
01 Jul 2021
The terms of the McCarran Act strategy offer a wide catchment that has the potential to ensnare any progressive or radical movement.
Keeanga-Yamahia Taylor
The Unknown History of Black Uprisings
01 Jul 2021
Historian Elizabeth Hinton’s book reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality.
Andrew Lanham
American Racism in the Time of Plagues
01 Jul 2021
The U.S Has a long history of blaming Asian immigrants for outbreaks of disease, and every time, democracy and public health suffer.
Scott Cooper
JuneTeenth: A Marxist Perspective
01 Jul 2021
As long as capitalism exists, the capitalists will seek to elevate some people and denigrate others, sowing divisions to deflect attention away from a common enemy.