Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Abolitionists Drew Blood in Fighting Slavery
08 Jun 2020
“It was fugitive slaves, who were violent in defending themselves against slave-catchers, who pushed abolitionists towards militant and sometimes violent tactics,” said Duke University historian Je
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police Vs Impunity
08 Jun 2020
“Until our Black and brown communities get control of the police, they are going to continue to murder us with impunity,” said Frank Chapman, chair of the National Alliance Ag
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Blacks Will No Longer Be “Chumps” for the Democrats
08 Jun 2020
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms showed her true colors when she berated protesters, said Trinity College sociologist Dr Johnny Williams.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The “Carceral State” is the Enemy
08 Jun 2020
The current wave of protest is correctly “targeting the commodification of Blackness by the state,” said Dr Brittany Friedman, a Rutgers University sociology professor at the
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Movement Gets BIG – and Its Enemies Reveal Themselves
04 Jun 2020
The decrepit racial capitalist order appears to be unraveling under the weight of coronavirus, economic depression, and a quantitative leap in people’s willingness to confront power through the pol
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Seek to End Protest
03 Jun 2020
The nationwide protests have forced the Black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Stephen Jackson is Right: Justice for George Floyd Requires Power to the People
03 Jun 2020
The police and the military not only protect the private property of the rich but also act as shock troops for the violent oppression of Black Americans and the racially subjugated everywhere.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad
03 Jun 2020
The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Headline News
03 Jun 2020
The world as we know it may be at the cusp of radical change, but right now it just looks like a blizzard of urgent headlines.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Shooting and looting started: 400 years ago
03 Jun 2020
Shooting, looting, scalping, lynching, Raping, torturing their way across the continent—400 years ago— Colonial settler thugs launched this endless crimson tide rolling down on