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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…
Prabhat Patnaik
The Abuse of the Concept of “Populism”
25 Jan 2023
What is populism? The word is often used by corporate media but without any analysis of its true meaning.
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
The Movement Sorely Misses Glen Ford
03 Aug 2022
Remembering Glen Ford and all that he taught us.