Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Brazilian Fascist Is Grave Danger to Blacks
13 Nov 2018
Policing killings in Black areas “will continue on a much wider scale” when president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, widely viewed as a fascist and racist, takes office on the first of the year, said
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Hip Hop Forges Black and Native American Solidarity
13 Nov 2018
Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Reform Doesn’t Work, Says Sociologist
13 Nov 2018
“Show me the American city where Black and brown folks are happy with the policing that emerges from” the usual menu of police re-training, body cameras and increased minority hiring.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Midterm Elections: Corporate Democrats Versus the Monster They Empowered
08 Nov 2018
Only transformational programs, like single payer health care, can erode the coherence of the White Supremacist Bloc, and at the same time galvanize the numeric majority of the nation.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black People Need Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
If white nationalists are allowed to abolish birthright citizenship, they will immediately move to de-Americanize as many Blacks as possible, for criminal convictions or poverty.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
On Rage, Reading Books, and Other Necessities for the “Millennial Generation”
07 Nov 2018
Young people in the US are increasingly open to socialism and radical ideas, but less likely to study the science of revolutionary change.
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
07 Nov 2018
The Great Lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and justified US military interventions all over the planet.
Nina Wallace
This Isn’t the First Time White Supremacists Have Tried to Cancel Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the US a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Back to the Dark Ages
07 Nov 2018
Russiagate is an invented hysteria, a psy-op and propaganda operation that distorts the political realities of both Russia and the US.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Sharpley-Whiting’s “Bricktop’s Paris“ and Magdalena J. Zaborowska’s “Me and My House”
07 Nov 2018
Our authors explore the Black experience in Europe, past and present, and mine the deep reservoir of wisdom that is James Baldwin.