Political Economy

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson’s As Black as Resistance
12 Jun 2018
“Siccing law enforcement on Black people could arguably be understood as attempted murder.”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Kali Nicole Gross’s Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
12 Jun 2018
“I hope readers consider whether we need to reassess Black women’s relationship to violence.”
Tanvi Misra
Traffic Stops: Pretexts for Racial Repression
12 Jun 2018
“Police have used the entire vehicle code as an excuse to use their discretion to pull people over who might appear suspicious to them for whatever reason.”
William C. Anderson
The Case for Delegitimizing the Police
12 Jun 2018
“Once you come to understand the institution’s ties to white supremacy, it becomes clear the system is toxic and cannot be fixed.”
Dr. Kweli Nzito
The Roots of Bigotry: Criminalizing States of Innate Being
12 Jun 2018
“Racist narratives become so thoroughly pervasive as to throw victims of racism themselves into states of confusion.”
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
A Premonition of Gentrification in Harlem
12 Jun 2018
“The elders” told Jenifer Wilson that there would soon be an assault on Harlem “to take the community from us, all the spaces.” So Wilson founded the Sisters’ Uptown Bookstore
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia on “King Donald The First”
11 Jun 2018
In a letter to special counsel Robert Mueller, President Trump argued that he has the right to pardon himself.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Hurricane Aid Earmarked for Puerto Rico Debt Service
11 Jun 2018
The appointed board that controls Puerto Rico’s finances is trying to divert hurricane relief aid to pay off the islands debt, according to a report by the Center for Economic and Policy Relief.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The State Uses Poverty to Split Workers
11 Jun 2018
“When you talk about coming out of poverty, you’ve got to go straight up against this government,” said Marian Kramer, head of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and widow of
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cops Use Suits to Intimidate Activists
11 Jun 2018
When Seattle city councilwoman Kshama Sawant, of the Socialist Alternative party, denounced the “brutal murder” of Che Taylor, an unarmed Black man, by police, the two cops sued he