Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Support for Medicare for All is a “National Consensus”
10 Dec 2019
“When an issue gets to the point where it has a national consensus behind it,” as does Medicare for All, “the people who profit from the system will do all they can to stop it,” said K
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Alliance for Peace: It’s Good That NATO is in Disarray
10 Dec 2019
Although Democrats and militarists bemoan President Trump’s tattered relations with other NATO heads of state, Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka sa
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
“Booming” Economy Means More Bad Jobs and Faster Race to the Bottom
05 Dec 2019
For the past 30 years, no matter which party has been in power, the US economy has produced more and more “bad” jobs – because the Race to the Bottom is ruling class policy.
Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
Freedom Rider: Liberals Love the Military
04 Dec 2019
Self-styled liberals believe they are a better class of people than Trump, but are bigger supporters of unjust wars than the so-called “deplorables.”
BAR Contributing Editor Danny Haiphong
Colin Kaepernick Shows that American Innocence is a White Supremacist Sport
04 Dec 2019
The Black struggle for dignity and self-determination will forever be criminalized as a problem by the white elite and their hirelings in the Black misleadership class.
BAR Poet-in-Residence Raymond Nat Turner
Boss Tweet’s Blitzkrieg
04 Dec 2019
I wake in a cold sweat, scrambling for the internet— What salvoes were let loose while we slept? How badly Bombed is the safety net? What rights are left?
Gary Johnson
GOOD AND DEAD
04 Dec 2019
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Killing of Fred Hampton by Chicago Police
Michael Barajas
Where the Bodies Are Buried
04 Dec 2019
Descendants of survivors of a 1910 massacre of Blacks in East Texas vow not to rest until the victims bodies have been found.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
04 Dec 2019
This time readers talked about overcoming ingrained racism and the possibilities of a Bernie Sanders presidency. We share letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Leah Vernon’s “Unashamed”
04 Dec 2019
A coming of age story of a Black Muslim girl living in America during trying social and political times.