Political Economy

Leslie Mac
Family Separation Through Prison and Policing Should Also Outrage Us
27 Jun 2018
“This country continues to routinely separate children from their parents and has done so well before this current border crisis.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Alaí Reyes-Santos’ “Our Caribbean Kin”
27 Jun 2018
“One must always be mindful of the kinship models one mobilizes to get people together in a quest for justice.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Anne Garland Mahler’s "From the Tricontinental to the Global South"
27 Jun 2018
“Tricontinentalism was deeply rooted in a long tradition of black internationalist thought.”
Bryan K. Bullock
Modern Black Codes and the Cops That Enforce Them
27 Jun 2018
“The police respond as if the black person is guilty of whatever transgression the white person said they committed.”
Don Fitz
When Cuban Polyclinics Were Born
27 Jun 2018
“Cuba has created a model for poor countries that forever changed medicine.”
Greg Palast
Ohio’s Junk Mail Trick Led the Supreme Court to Approve Jim Crow Voter Purge
27 Jun 2018
“The Help America Vote Act blew open a giant loophole in the National Voter Registration Act’s protections.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Washington’s Narrow Definition of Human Rights
26 Jun 2018
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley dismissed and ridiculed a UN report on entrenched poverty in the US because “the US does not recognized economic, social and cultural rights as, in f
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
NYPD Prey on Black and Brown Youth
26 Jun 2018
New York City police are using a 42,000-name “gang” database to prey on Black and brown youth, said Sadiki “Bro Shep” Olugbala, of the Stop The Raids Coalition.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poor People’s Campaign Aims to Change “Political Narrative”
26 Jun 2018
The Poor People’s Campaign seeks to “change the political narrative in this country,” said Rev Graylon Hagler, senior pastor of the Plymouth United Church of Christ, who as been arrested three time
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Trump Seeks to Woo North Korea from China
26 Jun 2018
The Trump administration’s peace overtures to North Korea are rooted in the U.S. desire to have a “friendly regime on China’s border,” said Dr.