Political Economy

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL:ON THE MOVE: The MOVE Organization and the Teachings of John Africa, June 28 and July 1, 1975
29 Apr 2021
The MOVE organization’s protests provoked some of the most intense forms of police brutality and repression witnessed in the country.
An Interview with Johanna Fernandez
Mumia Abu-Jamal: State Running Scared, Trying to Make Sure He Dies in Prison
29 Apr 2021
Mumia’s case always raises larger questions about the barbarism of the criminal justice system.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Justice was served from Warfare States’ gaslit woks
29 Apr 2021
Justice was served sweet and sour in pepper spray soup—tear- gas gumbo—tears mixed with milk and milk of magnesia in crimson curry sauce; Served from warfare states’ woks on
Erica Caines
The Class Collaboration of “Justice”
29 Apr 2021
After the guilty verdict, the clarity that was collectively growing became squandered with the words “it’s not justice, it’s accountability.”
Semassa Boko and Jeanette Charles
Reflections on Cuba’s Black Radical History, Revolutionary Health, and Grassroots Media
29 Apr 2021
It is vitally necessary to bridge the gap in knowledge and dismantle US misinformation campaigns against Cuba’s realities for international English-speaking audiences.
Scott McLernee
Notes From the Underground
29 Apr 2021
Richard Wright’s 1942 novel was testing the limits of what the white novel-reading public would have found imaginable.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent
“Anti-Blackness, Bioethics, and Public Health: 200 Introductory Resources for Community Study”
29 Apr 2021
Writers, artists, community organizers and scholars have all contributed their analysis of the resource documents listed, below, and how they might be useful in assessing anti-Black structures arou
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Davarian Baldwin’s “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower”
29 Apr 2021
Universities have become today’s companies and our cities their company towns.
Brian Shuffler
Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
28 Apr 2021
The struggle for workers’ rights in this country has been an ongoing battle for hundreds of years.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Gun Violence Starts at the Top
21 Apr 2021
If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit.