Political Economy

J.M. Kirby
Facing Wrongful Detention and Threats, Afro-Colombian Women Call for Justice
20 Mar 2019
In Colombia, “all human rights defenders are considered criminals,” especially those who are Black or indigenous.
Robin Philpot
Truth, Freedom and Peace will Prevail in Rwanda
20 Mar 2019
Millions of Africans in three countries have died in the 25 years since Paul Kagame’s troops shot down a plane carrying two African presidents.
Angel Guerra Cabrera
Venezuela: Adiós Guaidó
20 Mar 2019
The self-proclaimed interim president committed political suicide when he called for U.S. military intervention in his own country.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Particularities of Black Disability
18 Mar 2019
Vilissa Thompson fights to make sure that Black disabled people’s lives matter, too. A social worker and disabilities activist, Thompson is the creator of “Ramp You
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Failed Black Upper Class Project to “Reform” Poor Black Girls
18 Mar 2019
Between 1919 and 1939, the National Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs attempted to run a school for “wayward” Black girls called the Efland Home, in North Carolina.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The Indefensible Israeli Apartheid State
18 Mar 2019
“We’re seeing a crumbling of Israel’s ability to defend and promote the apartheid state,” said political analyst Chris Hedges. Rep.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Who Were US Mercenaries Targeting in Haiti?
18 Mar 2019
Haitians have all kinds of theories on what seven heavily armed American mercenaries were up to when they were arrested outside the country’s Central Bank at the height of civil disturbances, last
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Community Control of Cops on a Roll in Chicago
15 Mar 2019
“The people have given us a referendum” on CPAC, the Civilian Police Accountability Commission, said Frank Chapman, of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repres
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
The Imperial Racist Saga Comes Home, Where It Began
14 Mar 2019
What makes US progressives think that the Lords of Capital will be more tolerant of austerity-busting ‘socialists’ here at home than they are with Venezuela?
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Justice and Paul Manafort
13 Mar 2019
Now that Trump’s sleazy associates are facing prison, lots of Democrats that never gave a damn about mass Black incarceration are self-righteously blasting the criminal injustice system.