Black Misleadership Class

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Fear is Still the Motivation for Black Voters
27 Nov 2024
Kamala Harris is now a historical footnote who is heading for the dustbin of history. Yet this harsh truth is avoided by many Black people, who cast aspersions and scorn when they should see the…
Carlos Sirah
Empire's Overseers: The Two-Party Trap of Blackface Imperialism
30 Oct 2024
The U.S. political system is perpetuated through the facade of choice. The false belief that we have the power to decide who our political leaders will be and what policy the government will…
Jon Jeter
From Axis of Resistance to Political Cuckolds: How Palestinians, African Americans and Black South Africans Were Betrayed by Their Own
09 Oct 2024
One of the many unfortunate common threads between Palestinians, South Africans, and African Americans is the betrayal of the people by their political leadership who were meant to lead…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Bassackwards Tribe strikes again!
02 Oct 2024
"Bassackwards Tribe strikes again!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
CHAPTER: The Ford Foundation and Black Power, Robert L. Allen, 1968
24 Jul 2024
The late Robert L. Allen broke down the dialectics of Black elite co-option and counter-revolution. Hello, Kamala.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Ron Daniels and the Haiti Support Project [are] at it Again…, Ezili Dantò, 2005
26 Jun 2024
A 2005 editorial from Ezili Dantò reminds us that when it comes to Haiti, Black huckster Ron Daniels is cruising on the wrong side of history.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SERMON: The “Pet Negro” System, Zora Neale Hurston, 1943
19 Jun 2024
Zora Neale Hurston’s sermon on the “Pet Negro” system provides devastating and timely insight into the psychology of Black folk working in the service of white power. Preach, Sister Zora!
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
Black Alliance for Peace Condemns US Black (Mis)Leaders for their Support of US Military Intervention and Occupation of Haiti
19 Jun 2024
The ruling elite uses black misleaders to shore up support for imperialist objectives. Currently, these misleaders are freely and happily offering their services in support of the invasion and…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and the NYPD Repress Dissent
08 May 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class. He takes great pleasure in supporting apartheid Israel and he conducted police raids and intelligence…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
War criminal Bassackwards Tribe
06 Mar 2024
"War criminal Bassackwards Tribe" is the latest from our Poet-in-Residence.