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Terri Frick
Unhoused Why? It’s Always About the Land
18 Jun 2025
Homelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy. From 19th-century British 'clearings' to today’s police sweeps and Blackstone evictions, the playbook stays the same: displace the poor, privatize the…
Jon Jeter
Pizza Goeth Before a Fall? Changes in Americans’ Eating Habits Foretell a Deep Recession
04 Jun 2025
Wages can't keep up with prices, debt is crushing workers, and racial capitalism keeps us divided over shrinking slices. This isn't just inflation—it's collapse.
Jon Jeter
Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories: Liberal Media Blames Trump for Economic Woes That Began Years Ago
23 Apr 2025
Corporate media peddle the myth of a pre-Trump economic golden age, but for working-class Americans, especially Black families, the struggle began long before he took office.
Jon Jeter
Will Trump’s Tariffs Trigger a Second Great Depression?
09 Apr 2025
The Trump administration’s escalating trade war has sent shockwaves through the global economy, with Wall Street giants sounding the alarm over an imminent recession. As markets reel and experts warn…
Lallan Schoenstein
Wage stagnation: The real threat to Social Security
11 Dec 2024
Claims that the Social Security system is failing often omit the negative impact of stagnant and low wages for US workers.
BAR Editors
Black Agenda Report Returns with a New Site
10 Oct 2023
The Black Agenda Report editorial team is grateful to our readers for their support and patience. Last week we were unable to publish BAR due to circumstances beyond our control.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
3rd Reich corporate confederate circus
10 Oct 2023
By Raymond Nat Turner, Poet-in-Residence 3rd Reich corporate confederate circus
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Virtual Slave Labor in Congo’s Cobalt Mines
26 Jul 2023
I spoke to Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, about the virtual slave labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt mines.
Peoples Dispatch
Death Toll Mounts in Kenya as Police Intensify Crackdown on Protests Against US-IMF Backed Tax Regime
26 Jul 2023
Kenyans have been protesting President William Ruto’s Finance Act that increases taxes on essential goods while making concessions to foreign capital.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TRANSCRIPT: The Roots and Consequences of African Underdevelopment, Walter Rodney, 1979
31 May 2023
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first…