US Politics

Nicholas Brady
Juneteenth: “The Day is Ours”
23 Jun 2021
It seems inevitable our own holiday will be sold back to us by the same corporations that profit from exploiting black lives.
Stephen Sefton
Nicaragua's Benedict Arnolds – Political Opposition as Organized Crime
23 Jun 2021
Under Nicaraguan law, it is a crime to seek foreign interference in the country's internal affairs.
Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
Why We’re Fed Up with Weak Excuses for Accepting Awards from the Empire
23 Jun 2021
How should we respond when people of color who've spent a lifetime cussing the empire start curtseying to it instead?
Chris Gelardi
Hacked Emails Give Unfiltered View Into the DC Police Gang Database
23 Jun 2021
“Police can call you a gang member because they observed you with other gang members, who they declared gang members because they were with other gang members.”
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Reefer Legalization “Not Good” for Revolution, Says New York Lawmaker
21 Jun 2021
Although he’s glad recently passed marijuana legislation will halt arrests for possession and expunge criminal records, NY State Assemblyman and former Black Panther Charles Barron
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
G7 is a Neocolonial Cabal
21 Jun 2021
The recently concluded summit meeting of so-called G7 nations revealed them once again to be nothing “but a cabal and gangsters” bent on “maintaining neocolonial rule” of the planet, said R
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Make Black Lives Matter Fund-Raising Socially Accountable
21 Jun 2021
“Finance capital doesn’t fund liberation movements,” said Dr Joy James, the Williams College Humanities professor who moderated a recent Accountability in Social Justice Movements
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Ride: How Not to Celebrate Juneteenth
16 Jun 2021
Juneteenth has become the latest iteration of liberal capture of Black politics, opportunistic virtue signaling, and the intentional misrepresentation of America’s history.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Independent Media is Political, Too: A Defense of “State” or Publicly-Funded Media
16 Jun 2021
It is imperative for independent journalism to serve as the media arm of a movement that opposes the privatization of information and works toward the development of a public media apparatus.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
REPORT: Murdering Women in Nigeria, Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, May 1930
16 Jun 2021
British colonial officials turned their guns on women in two Nigerian towns in the 1920s, to put down protests against “head” taxes and levies on market stalls, killing scores.