Political Economy

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
My Wise Country Cousin on Unca Jim Clyburn an de Sharp Rite Turn
11 Nov 2020
Son, it look lak Unca Jim say, “Las’ time I chek I’se de whip— an’ got no time fo’ young Negroz wit all dey Blak Life lip…”
Bree Newsome Bass
Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black
11 Nov 2020
The idea that we can resolve racism by integrating a fundamentally anti-Black institution is the most absurd notion of all.
Alex Zambito
The FBI’s War on the Left: A Short History of COINTELPRO
11 Nov 2020
The Bureau’s COINTELPRO deployed every trick and crime in the book to crush left dissidents, from disruption to assassination.
Jason Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
11 Nov 2020
This week the presidential election and the legacy of Paul Robeson were on your minds.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Lia T. Bascomb’s “In Plenty and in Time of Need”
11 Nov 2020
Politicians ignore at their peril the power of popular culture and its people-moving practitioners.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Adrienne Brown’s “The Black Skyscraper”
11 Nov 2020
Facial masks and Black Lives Matter murals are part of the ever-changing panorama that shapes our perceptions of hierarchy, just as tall buildings do.
Meredeth Turshen and Annie Thébaud-Mony
The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Fatal Health Inequities
11 Nov 2020
Privatization of health care is why some of the wealthiest countries have proved unable to respond rapidly to the pandemic.
Angelique Richardson
“No Coloreds:” Racism in Britain has a Long if Contested History
11 Nov 2020
The Brits practiced a nonjudicial form of Jim Crow against non-white immigrants from their colonial empire.
Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
The Elusive Quest for Justice in Black America
11 Nov 2020
We as Black people must keep pushing, organizing, and demanding a Black agenda centered on reparations.
Morning Star Gali
Stolen Freedom: The Ongoing Incarceration of California’s Indigenous Peoples
11 Nov 2020
For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places.