Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Jim Crow Still Lives in Hollywood
19 Aug 2019
The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erig
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Isn’t Special: All US Presidents Support White Supremacy
19 Aug 2019
William C Anderson, author of a recent article titled, “Using Patriotism to Deflect Racism is a Deadly Mistake,” said “the Oval Office is quite familiar” with white supremacists li
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Is Back Coalition Holds National Conference in St. Louis
19 Aug 2019
Che Guevara’s call for “one, two, many Vietnams” to resist US imperialism has been answered in the 21st century by the rise of China and a multi-polar world, said BAR executive editor
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Why the Rich Want to Bury Bernie, the Not-Really-Socialist
15 Aug 2019
Sanders is fighting capitalist austerity, not capitalist rule, but austerity is ruling class policy, so the Democratic Party must stop him.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: No Racism, Just Russians
14 Aug 2019
The absurd claim that Russians have orchestrated US racial strife is designed to nullify Black outrage and discredit those who fight oppression.
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
William The Redactor
14 Aug 2019
William The Redactor will get to the bottom of it…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
From Iran to Mass Shootings on the Mainland, the U.S. Empire is in a State of Decay
14 Aug 2019
An empire in decay only becomes more violent and ruthless.
Afro-Descendents at Sao Paulo Forum
Afro-Descendents in the Americas Denounce Neo-Liberalism and Imperialism
14 Aug 2019
In Caracas, Venezuela, on July 28, 2019, Afro-Descended participants in the annual Sao Paulo Forum met to discuss the state of their various social movements.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Nobel Lecture
14 Aug 2019
“Forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light.”
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
The Red Summer of 1919, Explained
14 Aug 2019
White mobs attacked Black neighborhoods in cities across the nation in 1919, but this time Blacks would not “turn the left cheek when smitten upon the right.”