Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing
30 Mar 2020
When North Carolina writer and activist Joshua Briond was introduced to the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,” he knew that Be
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy”
30 Mar 2020
Can the corporate state hold, “or will it collapse under the weight of mass opposition and mass ‘distancing’ from the authority of the state?” asks Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteir
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 23, 2020
24 Mar 2020
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Too Fast to Be a Woman
24 Mar 2020
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no right to compete with other women” because she performed more
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
James Baldwin’s African Awakening
24 Mar 2020
Although famed writers James Baldwin never wrote a book entirely about Africa in his long career, his later works show him awakening to “the potential of Black internationalism” with the decoloniza
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Trillion Dollar “Buying Power” is a Capitalist Hoax
24 Mar 2020
For decades, politicians and business people have claimed that, if only African Americans used their alleged trillion dollar consumer purchasing power wisely, Blacks would make great economic and p
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of March 16, 2020
16 Mar 2020
Black Misleaders Put Their Own Class Interest Above Black Health
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Racial Voyeurism and Light-Skinned Black Babies
16 Mar 2020
Black babies born to Black mothers are often treated by media as “miraculous, or a gift from God,” writes Sonita Moss, a University of Pennsylvania Fulbright Scholar and co-au
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Voters Favor Medicare for All, But Think Biden is “Electable”
16 Mar 2020
“In all the states that have voted so far, Medicare for All, which Biden is explicitly against, wins a majority of voters” in exit polls, said Branko Marcetic, journalist and
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Misleaders Put Their Own Class Interest Above Black Health
16 Mar 2020
In their zeal to push Joe Biden for president, said Ajamu Baraka, the former Green Party vice presidential candidate, “the Black Misleadership Class is concealing class c