Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 7, 2016
08 Mar 2016
New FBI Guidelines for Targeting Classroom “Radicals” The nation’s teachers will soon be getting revised FBI guidelines on how to spot “radicalized” students. “The modern FBI ‘counter-violence and…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 29, 2016
01 Mar 2016
Sanders, Trump Campaigns May Crash Both Parties “The Bernie Sanders movement might break out into a major conflict at the convention in Philadelphia if the Sanders people feel that they’re being…
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Black Politics and Bernie Sanders
17 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Margaret Kimberley The Democratic presidential primary has turned into a real battle, but not ideologically, since “there is no leftist among the Democrats.” Hillary…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
The Clinton-Sanders Debate: What Was Left Unsaid?
17 Feb 2016
by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are expressing deep love for Black folks, who will dominate the South Carolina primary. Clinton hopes Black…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
EPA’s Deliberate Poisoning of Flint’s Children
10 Feb 2016
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo Flint, Michigan, was declared a “sacrifice zone” because its majority Black and poor population’s “presence is no longer required and their…
Mumia Abu Jamal
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
10 Feb 2016
by Mumia Abu-Jamal The adage that there are different systems of justice for rich and poor, Black and white, is horrifically confirmed in Flint, Michigan, where the white supremacist,…
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Vector of Fear: Blacks and the Democratic Party
04 Feb 2016
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Blacks in the South will probably not vote for Bernie Sanders, although they most resemble the “Scandinavian social democrats” of Sanders dreams. However, Black…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 25, 2016
26 Jan 2016
Dismantling Capitalism and Imperialism This month’s conference on the Black Radical Tradition, held at Temple University, in Philadelphia, was an historic gathering of 21st century Black “anti-…
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Power Ball and the American Psychosis of Capitalism
20 Jan 2016
by Danny Haiphong When capitalism is sinking, the working class is drowning, and flails about for a life raft – like Power Ball. “Workers, especially the increasing numbers thrown out of the labor…
Devon Douglas-Bower
Usurious: Bank Overdrafts are Like Payday Loans
13 Jan 2016
by Devon Douglas-Bower The nation’s biggest banks make huge profits from checking overdraft fees that effectively force “the poor to subsidize the rich.” The policy actually amounts to a kind of…