Political Economy

Ramsin Canon
Death of a Torturer
26 Sep 2018
Jon Burge gleefully coerced confessions from black men to get them convicted of crimes they often hadn’t committed and keep them in cages for the rest of their lives.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Daniel Raventós’ and Julie Wark’s “Against Charity”
26 Sep 2018
Conspicuous charity is one way of making great wealth seem respectable and even blessed in religious terms.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Micol Seigel’s “Violence Work”
26 Sep 2018
The author shows why racist police brutality has survived and even grown despite every attempt to integrate, oversee, educate, and otherwise reform the police.
Glenn Daigon
A Publicly Owned Bank for LA?
26 Sep 2018
A city-owned bank could extend the credit lines of community banks and credit unions to offer loans to low-income residents and help bankroll affordable housing.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, Week of September 24, 2018
25 Sep 2018
David Leonard: sport is no meritocracy; Vincent Lloyd: activists should appeal to a higher law; Anthony Monteiro: US reign as global hegemon is nearly over; Gail Walker: Cuban president to speak at
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Cuban President To Speak at NYC’s Riverside Church
24 Sep 2018
On September 26 the recently elected president of Cuba will address a community forum at New York City’s historic Riverside Church.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Losing Its Imperial Status
24 Sep 2018
“We are entering a new moment in history,” said Dubosian scholar Anthony Monteiro, which is in some ways a negation of the hegemonic dollar and the unipolar world, with the US as t
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Blacks Should Appeal to Higher Law
24 Sep 2018
Black activist politics made its greatest strides when it appealed to a higher law of justice, rather than the man-made legal system, said Vincent Lloyd, author of Black Natura
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Sports is Racist Playing Field
24 Sep 2018
“Every aspect of society manufacturers” white innocence and Black criminality, said David Leonard, author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power On and Off the Field.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Papa Bernie Got a (Not So) Brand New Foreign Policy Bag
20 Sep 2018
Bernie Sanders obscures the facts of US militarism, and urges Americans to fixate on axis of evil oligarch-ruled countries that does not include the home of the richest oligarchs of all: the U