Political Economy

Black Agenda Radio for Week of Aug 3, 2015
04 Aug 2015
Predator Cops Fill Graveyards U.S. police killed 412 people in 1976, 333 in 1984, and 385 in 1990, wrote Mumia Abu Jamal, the nation’s best known political prisoner, in an essay now republished for…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2015
21 Jul 2015
Mumia “May Have Been Poisoned” Six months after Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died from diabetic shock, the nation’s best known political prisoner’s underlying illness has yet to be diagnosed, said Dr.…
Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 29, 2015
30 Jun 2015
Don’t Just Count Black Bodies – We Need a Program of Liberation Veteran Malcolm X Grassroots Movement activist Kali Akuno is a co-author of the 2012 report Operation Ghetto Storm, which documented…
Obama Rams Through TPP With Little Democratic Support, Even from Black Caucus
24 Jun 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Every phony leftist that peddled Barack Obama as a “progressive,” and every knave and fool in “Progressives for Obama” that spread rose…
Thirty Years of Black Economic Regression
19 Mar 2015
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Black progress in the United States – the kind you can measure in numbers – is a myth. A new study confirms that Blacks have been…
Why Isn't Sen. Kirk's “Chicago Will Become Detroit” Threat National News?
11 Mar 2015
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Chicago could become Detroit, an Illinois Senator threatened on March 2, if Chicago fails to re-elect Rahm Emanuel. Staring down this threat tells us a…