Political Economy

Margaret Eby
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
04 Mar 2020
The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American supermarkets are selling you sweet potatoes, not yams.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Scholar Praises Heroes and Indicts “Scoundrels” of McCarthy Era
02 Mar 2020
The peace activists that were persecuted in the McCarthy era were not fighting just for the absence of war, but were “anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and demanded an end to United
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Last Surviving Member of the Move 9 is Released
02 Mar 2020
Delbert Africa, imprisoned along with eight other members of the Move organization in 1978 in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, is finally free to “tell his story,” said Mumia Abu
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Respectable” Black Women Fought Mass Incarceration
02 Mar 2020
Back in the days when 90 percent of southern prison inmates were Black, socially conservative Black clubwomen fought for prison reform, believing that “putting Black women in jail was hurting the B
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
If the Left Doesn’t Critique Endless War, Who Will?
02 Mar 2020
“We must raise the issues of war and imperialism in electoral politics in this country,” even if the Democrats don’t, said BAR senior columnist Margaret Kimberley, speaking at
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Black America, Endless War and the Evil Genius of Russiagate
27 Feb 2020
The Democrats -- who are now the most aggressive war party – have succeeded in linking Donald Trump to Russia, and then lumping all critics of U.S.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders' Foreign Policy Trap
26 Feb 2020
It is time for leftists to stop giving Sanders a pass and make demands on him and all other candidates for office.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The U.S. is World’s Merchant of Death in Capitalism’s Great Race to the Bottom
26 Feb 2020
The U.S.-led arms trade and the Great Race to the Bottom are interconnected phenomena that cannot be fought separately.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Bernie Sanders and the Military Industrial Complex
26 Feb 2020
If Bernie Sanders keeps going along with the Russiagate propaganda, he will find himself “Trumped” by the War Party and unable to enact his agenda.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
My Wise Country Cousin on Dem Big Negroz Ridin’ wit Emperor Stop’nFrisk
26 Feb 2020
Massa Mikul say, “Gib me de blak congressmen an’ mayors— Negroz who unerstan— ‘cause dey is all multimillionaires…” He say, “Big Negroz don’ feel lak dey's takin’ too big ob a risk