Declaration Of Independence

The Editors
Black Agenda Report July 4th Special Issue
01 Jul 2026
“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Barack Obama, George Washington and the 4th of July
01 Jul 2026
The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight, although he offers nothing new. He will be in the pocket of the oligarchy for the rest of his life, and that means he…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
F$$K the Fourth: Declaring Our Collective Independence from the Sinking Ship of U.S. Empire
01 Jul 2026
The settler colonial state is now more corrupt and more unequal than even the genocidal "founding fathers" imagined.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Slaveholders Who Signed the Declaration of Independence: Washington, Jefferson, and the People they Owned
01 Jul 2026
Black Agenda Report editors Margaret Kimberley and Ann Garrison discuss the personal and institutional hypocrisy that allowed those who said, "All men are created equal," to be slaveholders.