Political Economy

Roxana Baspineiro
Libya: Before and After Muammar Gaddafi
05 Feb 2020
Nine years after his death, residents in the chaos-wracked country's capital have grown to miss the longtime leader as the frustrations of daily life mount.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents
04 Feb 2020
US presidents range from very bad to less bad, but none were “good” for Black people – including the first Black one.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Return of the $electable Dead
04 Feb 2020
A Leni Riefenstahl film Written by Dr. Goebbels Produced by the DNC— Set in summer in Milwaukee: “Return of the $electable Dead.” A
Todd Steven Burroughs
The Revolution on Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, from 1966 to 1976
04 Feb 2020
Lerone Bennett’s de-colonized perspective was ultimately drowned out by the same capitalist forces that kept him alive in the first place.
Alex Alston
BAR Book Forum: “Books I Teach”
04 Feb 2020
Black studies is a conceptual movement that is trying to catch up to it’s more sensual and less formal cousin, black music.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Ben Conisbee Baer’s “Indigenous Vanguards”
04 Feb 2020
Spending time in worlds of the past opens a window on how things changed, or stubbornly remained unchanged.
Linn Washington Jr.
N.J. historic preservation officials insult the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
04 Feb 2020
New Jersey was the site of a young Dr King’s very first formal protest and lawsuit, but the state refuses to recognize the events.
William Scarborough, Iván Arenas, and Amanda E. Lewis
Between the Great Migration and Growing Exodus: The Future of Black Chicago?
04 Feb 2020
Recent population trends indicate that the city may be at risk of losing its status as a Black mecca.
Cornel West and Mordecai Lyon
Cornel West on Missing Zinn
04 Feb 2020
On the tenth anniversary of radical historian Howard Zinn’s death, Cornel West opens up about their friendship and what Zinn would have made of the decade – including whether he would have voted fo
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Guaido’s Failed Foreign Tour Ends With a Flop
04 Feb 2020
As the Feb 11 court date approaches for the US activists that defended the Venezuelan embassy, would-be president Juan Guaido has been reduced to an evil clown.