May 7, 2025
Black people who are among the rich and famous garner praise and love, and so do those who are in distress. But concerns for the masses of people and their struggles are often missing.
May 7, 2025
Ama Ata Aidoo lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism.
May 7, 2025
When justice is denied, does violence become the only language of resistance?
May 7, 2025
"DOGE— Department Of Grifter Enrichment" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
May 7, 2025
This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.
Black people who are among the rich and famous garner praise and love, and so do those who are in distress. But concerns for the masses of people and…
Ama Ata Aidoo lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism.
The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a…
"DOGE— Department Of Grifter Enrichment" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is…
From Gaza to Sudan to the streets of America, the monsters of our time demand mass resistance. Not just protest, but an organized, unrelenting…
The Black Alliance for Peace demands an end to U.S. and Western interference in Burkina Faso, rejecting neocolonial policies in the Sahel and…
City Council should pass a slate of housing protections centered on low-income renters instead of advancing plans for a hotel near the Obama Center…
Vietnam’s defeat of U.S. forces stands as a landmark anti-colonial victory, proving that determined resistance could overcome even the world’s most…
OMNIBUS
Tens of thousands filled the streets this weekend—marching, chanting, fists raised in defiance. It looked like a movement powerful enough to shake the earth. But beneath the banners and speeches, there was a silence that echoed louder than the crowd: Gaza wasn’t mentioned. Not once. Human rights defender Ajamu Baraka joined Wilmer Leon to ask the questions too many leaders were afraid to: Why was Gaza left out? What does the silence say? And how do we fight for real liberation—not just perform resistance?
As the Dominican Republic escalates its brutal crackdown on Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent, Red Malunga condemns the racist…
For two decades, draconian 1996 immigration laws have torn families apart—jailing long-term residents over minor offenses, fast-tracking deportations…
Trump’s brutality is just the latest flare-up of a bipartisan imperial evil—one that funds genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine, and repression at home…
NATO’s depleted uranium weapons leave a deadly legacy—cancer, birth defects, and environmental ruin in war-torn regions. The silent genocide…
For millions, a job is no longer enough to afford housing—yet the myth that homeless people don’t work still dominates public opinion.
The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront…
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The Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Rwanda recently signed a Declaration of Principles in Washington. Is Rwanda ending its M23 group’s incursion into the DRC?
The second National Black Radical Organizing Conference will convene in Indianapolis, Indiana, from May 30 through June 1. The conference theme is “Base-Building for Collective Power.” We are joined…
Liberals continue to condemn anyone who didn’t support Kamala Harris and the latest iteration of neo-liberal treachery. Black people are told to stand down when there is a fight worth waging.
The Israeli state’s starvation campaign in Gaza—backed by the U.S. and Europe—is a livestreamed genocide. As malnutrition ravages children and the West vetoes ceasefires, the 'rules-based order'…
“This is not high-way robbery; it can be better called international burglary.”
