Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Reparations Now Ripe for Full Congressional Debate
10 Jun 2019
The premier organization pushing for Black reparations holds its 30th annual convention, June 20 – 23, in Detroit. HR 40, the House Reparations Study bill, now has a companion measure in the U.S.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
Joe Biden, Prince of Prisons
04 Jun 2019
"Biden was a sponsor and in many cases the primary architect of every significant federal bill that exacerbated mass incarceration."
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Countering the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Offensive – Part Two
03 Jun 2019
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective. In Part Two: King Downing, Johanna Fernandez and Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Countering the FBI’s “Black Identity Extremist” Offensive – Part One
03 Jun 2019
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective. In Part One: Ajamu Sankofa, Myaisha Hayes and Aya Saed.
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
US Protects Jihadists in Syria
27 May 2019
If the United States launches another air strike against Syria, understand that it will be to protect al Qaida, the empire’s jihadist foot soldiers.
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Church Complicit in Marking Black Females as Hypersexual
27 May 2019
The Black church has preserved and fostered slavery-based views of Black female sexuality, causing Black women and girls to be labeled as “Jezebels,” said Tamura Lomax, author of&n
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Regime Change Through Social Media
27 May 2019
The CIA’s Digital Innovations Division is now as strategic a tool of regime change as the old cloak and dagger methods of subversion, according to Doug Valentine, author of&nb
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
To Preserve Austerity, Corporate Democrats Scheme to Smother Sanders
20 May 2019
Democratic “diversity” is a cover for the sameness of the party’s actual policies – endless austerity and war, just like the other corporate party.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Brazil is a Killing Field for Young Black Men
20 May 2019
“The police kill at least 14 young Black men in Brazil every single day,” said Prof. Jaime Amparo Alves, a member of the Brazilian Black Movement who teaches anthropology at t
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Political Mafia Suspected in Marielle Franco Murder
20 May 2019
Only two people have been arrested in the March, 2018 assassination of Marielle Franco, the Black activist and city councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.