WRITINGS

FILMS AND WRITINGS BY Michael T. Barry Jr.

​​MTBarry Productions


"Book Review: Radical Documentary ​and Global Crisis," The Activist History Review,  February 3, 2022.


"A Teacher's Perspective: A Well-Deserved Break," Southern Maryland News, The Enquirer-Gazette, December 15, 2021. 

"A Teacher's Perspective: Thank you to our students," Southern Maryland News, The Enquirer-Gazette, March 23, 2021. 

"An Anti-Islamophobic President?" The Activist History Review, December 18, 2020. 

"Weighing the risk factors for in-person learning," Southern Maryland News, The Enquirer-Gazette, October 26, 2020. 

"Time to Cancel 2020 Baseball Season: A Lesson for Colleges and Universities," The Activist History Review, August 1, 2020. 
 Also published in Sport in American History. 


"The Rise of Skywalker's Activist Historian," The Activist History Review, January 6, 2020. 

"Patterson's 'Moral Crusade': Islamophobia in Ali v. Patterson" Sport in American History, April 22, 2019.


"What Does it Mean to Be An Activist Historian: A Roundtable with the Editors," The Activist History Review, March 29, 2019

“Are Millennials Still Feeling the Bern?” The Activist History Review, October 1, 2018

"U Street Contested: A New Film on Washington, DC's U Street," The Activist History Review, February 14, 2018

“Film Feature: “Quest”: A New Film on Black Family Life,” Black Perspectives, December 23, 2017


“Film Feature: “Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity,” Black Perspectives, November 17, 2017

“A Rebuttal to Richard Spencer’s Hate Speech and “Ethnostates,” The Black Print, November 2. 2017


“Film Feature: “Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass incarceration,” Black Perspectives, October 21, 2017

“New Ban, Same Islamophobia,” The Black Print, October 3, 2017

“Film Feature: “The Revival Women and the Word”: A New Film on Queer Women of Color,” Black Perspectives, September 1, 2017

“Is Trump America’s Most Islamophobic President?” The Gainesville Sun, July 28, 2017

“Film Feature: “Business in the Black”: A New Film on the Rise of Black Business in America,” Black Perspectives, July 8, 2017

“Film Feature: “Talking Black in America”: A New Film on African American English,” Black Perspectives, June 13, 2017

“Bernie Sanders is Democrats’ Best Bet in 2020,” The Gainesville Sun, The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, and News Chief Florida, May 31, 2017


“Film Feature: “The House on Coco Road”: A New Film on Family, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Grenada,” Black Perspectives, May 2, 2017

“Film Feature: “An Outrage”: A New Film on Lynching in the American South,” Black Perspectives, March 22, 2017

“Nation Needs More Debates,” The Gainesville Sun, February 14, 2017

“Film Feature: “Reflections Unheard”: A New Film on Black Women and Civil Rights,” Black Perspectives, January 19, 2017 

"Read Between the Lines," Truthout, May 25, 2016