Political Economy

Gustavus Griffin
Freddie Gray and Why the Wealth of Sports Franchises Matter
06 Jan 2021
A significant portion of sports franchise wealth can be traced directly to the oppression and displacement of Black and Brown bodies.
Akilah Johnson and Nina Martin
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
06 Jan 2021
To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry. “Covid-19 is a new gear in an old machine.”
Robin D.G. Kelley
The Freedom Struggle Is a Labor Struggle, Then and Now
06 Jan 2021
Black labor militants, many of whom were Communists, were the key to building the CIO in the South.
Linda Burnham
The Activist Roots of Black Feminist Theory
06 Jan 2021
Intersection theory insists on the simultaneity of condition, the both/and of Black women’s oppression.
John Ross and Vijay Prashad
China and US relations in Latin America
06 Jan 2021
China will find itself engaged in an international struggle between its “win-win” approach to international policy and the US’s attempted “anti-China” policy.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class
17 Dec 2020
The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Master Biden Speaks
16 Dec 2020
The civil rights groups’ rather basic requests for voting rights protections and the need for federal intervention to address police brutality were minimized and dismissed by the president-ele
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Racial Capitalism, Black Liberation, and South Africa
16 Dec 2020
The phrase racial capitalism first emerged in the context of the anti-Apartheid and southern African liberation struggles in the 1970s.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
When Austerity’s Chickens Came Home to Roost in the U.S., Bernie and “the Squad” were Unprepared
16 Dec 2020
The theory of change that depicts the likes of Bernie Sanders and AOC as the leaders of the class struggle has failed to materialize in reality.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Imagine: The Town Crier’s Cabinet Selections
16 Dec 2020
Cut plastic cuffs from imaginations— Dream larger in dire situations… IMAGINE every cook governing— every governor cooking up people puzzles—right livelihood alchemy…