US Politics

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
While Trump Waves a Flag of white “Supremacy,” Democrats are Waving a White Flag of Surrender
12 Feb 2025
Donald Trump began his presidency with an onslaught of executive actions meant to dismantle those governmental agencies that offer any lifeline for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor white…
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…
Pablo Meriguet
Trump announces Guantánamo Bay base expansion to detain up to 30,000 migrants
05 Feb 2025
The project has caused indignation in Cuba, which claims sovereignty over the Guantánamo Base, occupied more than 100 years ago by the US military.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Death of DEI with Jamarl Thomas
31 Jan 2025
Margaret Kimberley was recently a guest on Jamarl Thomas's YouTube podcast. She discussed her latest Black Agenda Report article on “The Death of DEI.” The issues surrounding DEI are contradictory.…
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.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The fire this time … (as Amiri tolt me)
29 Jan 2025
"The fire this time … (as Amiri tolt me)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Alan MacLeod
Marco Rubio: From ‘Perfect Little Puppet’ to Most Dangerous Man Alive
29 Jan 2025
As a U.S. Senator, Marco Rubio was a consistent war hawk and imperialist. Now as Secretary of State he poses great danger to the world.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Donald Trump Attempts to End Birthright Citizenship
24 Jan 2025
Thomas Wolf, Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center, joins us to discuss the implications of Trump’s executive order, which denies citizenship to children of undocumented people and…
Heba Gowayed
The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration
22 Jan 2025
Though party leadership called it inhumane, 48 democratic members of Congress voted for the bill to deport immigrants accused, not convicted, of petty theft.
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.