Political Economy

Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
08 Jul 2020
This week you discussed Thanksgiving, the George Floyd protests, and allegations about Russian involvement in Afghanistan.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Christel Temple’s “Black Cultural Mythology”
08 Jul 2020
Black Cultural Mythology imagines a world where Africana cultural memory is an intellectual field with its own agency that does not rely on other cultures’ models to sustain its
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Andrew J. Douglas’s “W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society”
08 Jul 2020
Du Bois appears to have anticipated the coming of the neoliberal dystopia.
Marlene Daut
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
08 Jul 2020
The indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them.
Stephen Sefton
Nicaragua – How Phony Human Rights Groups Slandered a U.S.-Targeted Nation
08 Jul 2020
Nicaragua's case is a text-book example of how genuine human rights research has been subverted so as to produce highly biased reports.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
The Weaponization of Culture
08 Jul 2020
While statues glorifying white supremacy are being torn down across the globe, a Maryland county is busy desecrating African graves and building a new edifice to white supremacy.
Roger Stoll
Cuban Spies Disguised As Doctors
08 Jul 2020
The European Union now excludes travelers from the COVID-ridden U.S., but
Gustavus Griffin
What’s in a Name Change?: A New Black/Native American Solidarity
08 Jul 2020
Native American and African/Black people in America have both been victims of Settler Colonialism.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 6, 2020
06 Jul 2020
George Floyd Protests Were Result of Years of Organizing
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
“Kwaito” Music Moves South African Youth
06 Jul 2020
Xavier Livermon, professor of African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sees “many parallels” between the US-based Hip Hop phenomenon and the Kwaito music belo