Political Economy

Alice Speri
New York Schools Gang Unit Pushes the Criminalization of Children
19 Feb 2020
A school handbook paints a picture of youth criminality that is steeped in law enforcement lingo and appears to have been written by police rather than educators.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 17, 2020
18 Feb 2020
US Must Build Housing on a Bigger Scale than the New Deal
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Mumia Marks Release of Chuck Africa
18 Feb 2020
The nation’s best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal, was jubilant at the release of Chuck Africa, at 59 the last of the Move 9 members to leave prison after conviction
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Free All Political Prisoners Including Julian Assange
18 Feb 2020
Julian Assange must be set free, like all the other political prisoners of US Empire,” said BAR executive editor Glen Ford.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Abolish Schooling As We Know It
18 Feb 2020
Public schools in Black America are part of the mass incarceration system, said David Stovall, a professor of African American Studies and Criminology at the University of Ill
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Must Build Housing on a Bigger Scale than the New Deal
18 Feb 2020
Organizer Tara Raghuveer, whose Kansas City Tenants group won passage of a Tenants Bill of Rights, said “One of our central demands is to return to treating housing as a publi
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning
13 Feb 2020
Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer,
Ed Pilkington
Chuck Sims Africa Freed: Final Jailed Move 9 Member Released From Prison
12 Feb 2020
The last of Philadelphia’s most besieged, and heroic, Black political families is released, after a 42-year ordeal.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Kobe, Impeachment and the Coronavirus: A Study on the Dangers of White Liberal Fragility
12 Feb 2020
White liberalism is not a kinder, gentler form of white supremacy, or a lesser evil to the more explicit racism of Trump and his base.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Lives Over Luxury: The Poor People’s Army Plans to March on the DNC
12 Feb 2020
The founder of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign invites everyone to join them in a march against the DNC if it steals the presidential nomination.