Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reading During “Perfect Storm” of Crisis
29 Jun 2020
Medical, economic and political crises have combined to create a “perfect storm for reading, because of the ways that the ideology of whiteness has come to its limits,” said Aparna Mis
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Blacks Need to Rethink “Positive” Images in a Racist Country
29 Jun 2020
A segment of African Americans has long been obsessed with promoting images that are positive representations of The Race, but recurring police atrocities show the necessity to “expose the regime o
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Inequality: The American Ethos
29 Jun 2020
The US has historically been a place where “fairness is adjudicated unevenly, it’s based on inequality” in which “certain people deserve more than others,” said Ampson Hagan,
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control
25 Jun 2020
Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Democrats Move Right and Towards Defeat
24 Jun 2020
Besides not being Trump, the Democrats offer nothing, but think they can win with a candidate who has no constituency, charisma or any platform positions that would attract more voters.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Movement to Abolish the Police Must Place Politics in Command
24 Jun 2020
Community control of the police offers a concrete vision for what the beginnings of police abolition might look like.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Responsibility to Protect? Bipartisan Crimes Against Humanity in the U.S.
24 Jun 2020
The US committed crimes against humanity by creating the conditions that led to sickness and death for vulnerable sectors of the U.S. population
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, 1964—2020
24 Jun 2020
Burundi is Africa’s Syria and Venezuela, a developing nation that dared to defy US dictates under Nkurunziza’s leadership.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Notes on the Coloniality of Peace
24 Jun 2020
The “peace” our enemies want is mounted on brutal war and in its continuation in modern/colonial law and order.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Who’s a Worker? (for Leo, Clarence, Jack, Trent and ILWU Local 10 Brothers and Sisters)
24 Jun 2020
I’ve prepped produce; bagged bread; stocked shelves; pulled products for- ward on shelves of several stores. So I bring nothing but love for frontline