Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
The Politics of Performance
02 Jun 2021
Performance art has the power to make the future felt in the present.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
George Floyd Not a Martyr
02 Jun 2021
The effectiveness of the social justice movement should be measured by “what material conditions have actually shifted for Black people” and other vulnerable groups, said Kovie Biakolo
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Biden Breaks His Promises
27 May 2021
Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Palestine is a Mirror into the Contemporary World Struggle Against Imperialism, and its Contradictions
27 May 2021
One cannot logically support the liberation of Palestine while simultaneously advocating regime change in Syria and Venezuela and obscene funding for the US military.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
US Moves against Ethiopia and Eritrea: Atrocities Alleged, Sanctions Imposed
27 May 2021
US hostilities towards Ethiopia and Eritrea look more and more like those preceding US wars in Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria, writes Ann Garrison.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972
26 May 2021
At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.”
Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residence
Preachin’ to the Choir (for Joe, Linda, Tim…)
26 May 2021
2020’s hindsight—frost in the rearview mirror. Miles Ahead… I’m Sheltered in Solidarity with National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month— April in Boston—warm cider
Dr. Gerald Horne
Against Left-Wing White Nationalism
26 May 2021
Much of what is called the “left” still insists that the American “revolution” of 1776 is “unfinished,” when history shows that white supremacy was the intended result.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Michael Rothberg’s “The Implicated Subject”
26 May 2021
Most people contribute to injustice not as direct perpetrators but as indirect participants who enable, perpetuate, benefit from, and inherit histories of violence and contemporary systems of explo
C. Riley Snorton
BAR Book Forum: C. Riley Snorton’s “Black on Both Sides”
26 May 2021
The inhabitation of the un-gender-specific and “fungible” also mapped the affective grounds for imagining other qualities of life and being for those marked by and for captivity.