Political Economy

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US Schools are a “Carceral” and “Punitive Landscape”
16 Sep 2019
For students of color in the US, schooling has long been a “carceral condition,” said Connie Wun, a researcher and advocate for women and girls, who wrote an influential artic
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Blacks Pay High Price for Bad Healthcare
16 Sep 2019
Dr Leslie Hinkson, author of “Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine,” said Black people “get bad care, and that not only leads to further undermining of their health,
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Police Killings of Blacks Explode in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
16 Sep 2019
In just three months, police in Rio de Janeiro killed 434 people, most of them young Black men. Joao Costa Vargas, professor of anthropology at the University of California at
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of September 9, 2019
10 Sep 2019
Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine
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The “Great Contradiction” of US Incarceration
10 Sep 2019
Donte Mitchell, a longtime prisoner of the State of New York, finds essential truths in the poem, “The Great Contradiction,” as it applies to the two million prisoners in US.
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Slavery is Model for US Prison Book-Banning
10 Sep 2019
Although First Amendment guarantees of freedom of expression apply to prisoners, the “catch is that these rights can be restricted in the interest of security,” said Professor Brittany Friedman, a
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FBI Terror "Watch List” is Unconstitutional
10 Sep 2019
“The US has always had a watchlist,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford, following a federal judge’s ruling that the FBI’s anti-terror Watch List is unconstitutional.
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Green Party Gears Up for Eco-Socialism Conference
10 Sep 2019
Anita Rios, national co-chair of the Green Party, says the Democrat’s version of the Green New Deal is mostly “rhetoric,” while her party’s “eco-socialist agenda is the only path t
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Jay-Z Seeks to Profit from the War Machine
10 Sep 2019
Jay-Z isn’t just trying to make another billion bucks by undermining Colin Kaepernick and the “take a knee” movement, said Louis Jefferson, funder of the San-Jose, California-
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California Ethnic Studies Bill Sidelined
03 Sep 2019
Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/