Political Economy

Jay Reeves
America’s Last Slave Ship Could Offer a Case for Reparations
23 Oct 2019
The riches that accrued from the last US slave shipment are in plain site of the voyage’s descendants in Mobile, Alabama.
Prime Minister Gaston Browne
Reparations for Development and Justice for the Caribbean
23 Oct 2019
The labor costs alone of our forebears would have created a debt of approximately two trillion dollars, which must be repaid.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Monday, October 21, 2019
21 Oct 2019
Duboisian Scholar to Address BAR Gathering on “Building a Black Left”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Poor, Black LGBTQ Youth Still Suffering
21 Oct 2019
Although LGBTQ communities have a much higher political profile than in the past, Mustafa Sullivan, director of FIERCE, an organization that builds leadership among LGBTQ yout
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Obama's War in Syria Led to Trump’s War in Syria
21 Oct 2019
Democrats pretend that the bloodshed in Syria is Donald Trump’s legacy, but Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka says, “We have to remind people
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Duboisian Scholar to Address BAR Gathering on “Building a Black Left”
21 Oct 2019
“Decades ago, much of the Black Left “turned its back on Black working people in the interest of aligning with the liberal establishment that controls the Democratic Party,” said Dr An
Jemima Pierre
Haiti and the Convenience of Imperial Amnesia
16 Oct 2019
The ongoing protests in Haiti are ultimately directed against the “Core Group” – US imperialism and its junior partners, who have teamed up to gang-bang the wounded and bleeding Black republic.
Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
Syria: Exposing Western Radical Collaboration with Imperialism
16 Oct 2019
“Western radicals must take a consistent anti-imperialist position despite the internal contradictions or problems that existwithin a state in the Global South.”
by BAR Staff
Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary: An Evening of Information and Inspiration for Liberation, and a Tribute to Co-Founder Bruce Dixon
16 Oct 2019
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Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Solidarity Never? The Battle for WBAI
16 Oct 2019
A radio station steeped in generations of progressive battles has, at least temporally, lost its voice.