Political Economy

Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MANIFESTO: “The Crime of Being Born Black on American Soil”: Claudia Jones’s Statement Before Being Sentenced, February 2, 1953
03 Mar 2021
Claudia Jones’s arrests and eventual deportation were part of the expansion of the US government’s Cold War attacks on immigrants—Black immigrants included—who were affiliated with the Communi
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Against Big Tech's Algorithmic Cancel Culture
03 Mar 2021
Project Censored Host Mickey Huff predicted that #CancelCulture warriors would be calling stations to complain about his opposition to Big Tech censorship, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Long Live the Legacy of Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
03 Mar 2021
Ferlinghetti might have been God ‘cause he almost lived forever; and Jersey Boys—Allen and Amiri— lyricized Coltrane’s “Welcome” and are singing it for him with rhythmic
Azad Essa
Cornel West: Palestine Is a “Taboo Issue Among Certain Circles in High Places”
03 Mar 2021
West, considered one of America's foremost intellectuals, said he is confident that it is his criticism of Israel that cost him tenure at Harvard.
Jahan Choudhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
03 Mar 2021
This week the blackout in Texas, the recent film on Fred Hampton, and Democracy Now’s international coverage were on your minds.
Imani A. Wadud
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s "In the Wake"
03 Mar 2021
We adapt to make life livable, to uplift ourselves, and through us we show our community that we are prepared for the mysteries of what the day will bring.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Asma Barlas’s “Believing Women in Islam”
03 Mar 2021
This book focuses on whether discrimination and violence against Muslim women are sanctioned by the Qur’an, as critics of Islam allege.
Joseph G. Ramsey
How Should Revolutionaries Relate to this Film? 15 Lessons from Judas and the Black Messiah
03 Mar 2021
Let’s not allow our revolutionary wish-list to keep us from appreciating the ways this film intervenes—with force and clarity—in our present American political discourse.
Pan-African Community Action
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing: A Reply to Our Critics
03 Mar 2021
Once we are able to secure Community Control over Police and ensure that entire communities are empowered to exercise such control, we will be free to re-imagine and re-envision the very nature of
Jon Jeter
An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
03 Mar 2021
The author, a former corporate journalist like Hedges, reminds him that white workers betrayed Black workers and class solldarity, not the other way around.