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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democratic Party Collusion, Race Baiting, and Death by Austerity
05 Feb 2025
Donald Trump began his presidency with unconstitutional and possibly illegal orders that put the minority Democratic Party on the sidelines. Democrats have not utilized their own bully pulpit to…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Death of DEI
29 Jan 2025
Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that “diversity” can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned
22 Jan 2025
Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Joe Biden's Terrible Legacy
15 Jan 2025
The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ghost of Jimmy Carter
08 Jan 2025
Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to ‘speak ill of the dead’ and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must be…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and Daniel Penny Make Black People the Face of Crime
18 Dec 2024
Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams' defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
War Propaganda and the Fall of Syria
11 Dec 2024
A succession of U.S. presidents have been committed to regime change in Syria. That long-held goal has been achieved in part through a sustained campaign of war propaganda.
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A Discussion with Ajamu Baraka on People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a Framework Born of Struggle and Crisis
11 Dec 2024
The Black Alliance for Peace just launched its North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley discussed why this project is so necessary.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Margaret Kimberley speaks at the No Nuclear War Conference - National Press Club in Washington
11 Dec 2024
On December 7, 2024, Scott Ritter convened a panel at the National Press Club in Washington to discuss the increasing risk of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. Margaret Kimberley was…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Problem with Joe and Hunter
04 Dec 2024
The outrage surrounding President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden is not just about clemency for the relatively minor charges he was facing. The younger Biden has lived a life of great…