Political Economy

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus Test
19 May 2021
President Joe Biden continues to proclaim endless support of apartheid Israel, but millions have decided that defense of Palestinian rights and lives is the only civilized response to barbaric aggr
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Poem: June Jordan, Moving towards Home, 1982
19 May 2021
Seventy-three years after the Nakba began, the Zionists continue their land and rights thievery, to which June Jordan, the Black American poet, bore powerful witness.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Hoops and the Hype: Basketball Africa League Debuts in Rwanda
19 May 2021
The decision to debut the Basketball Africa League in Rwanda is a huge public relations coup for totalitarian, war criminal, and US military partner Paul Kagame, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Herd impunity?
19 May 2021
What if a colonial settler state accidentally vaccinated 61% of its population With a virulent variant of a vicious virus?
US Out of Africa Network
BAP US Out of Africa Network Statement On the Latest Zionist Genocidal Assault in Palestinian
19 May 2021
The ongoing Nakba is only possible because of the Pan-European white supremacist and imperial support for the crimes of the Zionist entity.
Caribbean Pan-African Network
Caribbean Organizations Call on CARICOM, the US, Britian and EU to Take Urgent Action
19 May 2021
The Zionists are continuing a campaign of dispossession, terror and murder of Palestinians that began in 1948.
Omar Zahzah
Digital apartheid: Palestinians Being Silenced On Social Media
19 May 2021
Social media companies, from Zoom to Facebook and Twitter, are reinforcing Israel’s erasure of Palestinians.
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness
19 May 2021
Entrenched in anti-racist theory and practice today is the belief that all racial and ethnic domination is structured around a global hierarchy, with “white” people at the top and “black” people at
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Katrinell M. Davis’ “Tainted Tap”
19 May 2021
Activists and community organizers should be inspired by the work of elders engaged in social change.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Rachel Elizabeth Harding’s “Remnants”
19 May 2021
There is a need and desire among folks in activist communities for resources of ritual and spiritual grounding.