Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Aretha Rejoins “Celestial Choir”
20 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal on the passing of Black music great Aretha Franklin: “She returns to the celestial choir after 76 summers of earthly life.”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
A Real Chance for Mumia Freedom
20 Aug 2018
“Those hearings that are coming up on August 30th could lead to a new trial for Mumia,” said Orie Lumumba, of Family and Concerned Friends of Mumia Abu Jamal.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Underground Fugitives Foresaw US Decline and Repression
20 Aug 2018
The underground radicals of the 1960s and 70s were prescient in their political analysis, according to Stephen Dillon, author of Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
US Banks’ Chief Export: White Supremacy
20 Aug 2018
Wall Street bankers brought their brand of racism to the US imperial project in the Caribbean and Latin America, said Peter James Hudson, author of Bankers of Empire: How Wall
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Imperial Head Doesn’t Know What Imperial Hand Is Doing
20 Aug 2018
“The whole imperialist system is in a state of severe crisis,” said Black Is Back Coalition chairman Omali Yeshitela, at the coalition’s annual conference, in St. Louis.
Nellie Bailiey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio, week of August 13, 2018
14 Aug 2018
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Mumia Supporters Gear Up for Hearing
14 Aug 2018
Mumia Abu Jamal supporters need to converge on Philadelphia in large numbers, on August 30, for hearings on Abu Jamal’s contention that judicial bias tainted his trial process, said Johanna
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Black Capitalism Can’t Fix Racial Wealth Gap
14 Aug 2018
Black banks are useful and should be supported, but only some form of reparations can confront the disastrous Black economic condition, said Mehrsa Baradaran, author of “The Color
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Dr Fred Moten: The Black Social Self-View
06 Aug 2018
The constant denial of individual Black personhood that is a legacy of centuries of slavery has given us “a chance to organizer around something other than the debilitating and vicious notion of in
Kyle Fraser , Black Agenda Radio producer
Jihad Abdulmumit: Black Radical Movement Needs Infrastructure
06 Aug 2018
There is some continuity between today’s Black movement and the Sixties, however, “today’s struggle lacks the infrastructure in-the-hood-building” of the Panther era, said Jihad Abdulmumit