Political Economy

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
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Black Lives Extinguished, Black Ancestors’ Bodies Desecrated
03 Jun 2020
We are killed in the streets while we are alive and then our bodies are dug up and thrown away like trash when businesses require the land for profit making.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Jun 2020
This week police brutality and the Coronavirus were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Sasha Turner’s “Contested Bodies”
03 Jun 2020
Mothers and infants consistently experience positive health outcomes when midwives are incorporated into healthcare systems.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brandon R. Byrd’s “The Black Republic”
03 Jun 2020
We should see Haiti as a bellwether for what is occurring throughout the Americas and the world.
Russell Rickford
The Promise of Street Rebellions
03 Jun 2020
The flames burned both for Floyd and for the vanishing dream of a moral economy.
Dante J. James
We Can’t Breathe
03 Jun 2020
Can and should America continue to breathe if it continues to suffocate African American people and our communities?
Paul Butler
Policing in the US is Not About Enforcing Law. It’s About Enforcing White Supremacy
03 Jun 2020
If we had something approaching equal justice, would we still even be the United States? “Mr. Floyd was not human to these officers.”
BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Robert Stubblefield
Why Hasn’t Amy Cooper Been Arrested? The Case of Pink Pussy Privilege
03 Jun 2020
While most advocates focus on police abuse of the black community, we must also hold accountable the people who call police and make false claims against black people.