Political Economy

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
low Barr Limbo
10 Jun 2020
He so wide you can’t go ‘round him He so low you can’t go under him He so low that when he go High an ant can’t get under him; a rattlesnake’s shake’s
Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman
Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis
10 Jun 2020
Defunding the police might end the armed and uniformed force as we know it, but the ruling class will then hire mercenaries to protect their wealth and enforce their will.
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Africa’s Response to the George Floyd Murder
10 Jun 2020
Outrage towards the US emanated from the Congo, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, all condemning the killing.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
10 Jun 2020
This week police brutality and racism in the United States and Brazil were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Elizabeth R. Baer’s “The Genocidal Gaze”
10 Jun 2020
In Southwest Africa the Germans devised the methodology which they would re-use in the Holocaust thirty years later.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Douglas Flowe’s “Uncontrollable Blackness”
10 Jun 2020
Black men are besieged by an American crucible uniquely designed for them in the early twentieth century.
Earl Hazell
White Images, Black Reality: How to Talk to the Accidental Apologists for Monsters
10 Jun 2020
The author offers some thoughts on how to deal with white people that seek to dominate Black political discussion on social media.
Mark P. Fancher
Global Africa Must Defeat Global Imperialist Policing
10 Jun 2020
Africans have flooded into the streets of Britain, Germany, Brazil, France and many other countries, not only in solidarity, but also as part of their own resistance.
Ethan Johnson
Incandescent Whiteness: Dispatch from Portland, Oregon
10 Jun 2020
We are murdered, but there is no recourse because there is no crime. No death occurred because we are not human.
K. Scott
Ooh La La: Atlanta’s Mayor Keisha and Civil Rights Myths in the Black “Mecca”
10 Jun 2020
Mayor Lance Bottoms brought in troops to occupy her city while claiming that protesters dishonored the memory of MLK.