| Black Agenda Report

Jacqueline Luqman
Continuity of Social Control From Slave Patrols To Policing To ICE
28 Jan 2026
To understand the violence of contemporary immigration enforcement, one must trace its lineage directly to the antebellum slave patrols — a system founded on racial terror and complete state control.
Austin Cole
Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, and the Obfuscation of the Land Question in the U.S.
28 Jan 2026
The grassroots resistance against data centers is about more than zoning and community benefit agreements. It is the latest front in America’s war against the people over land, sovereignty, and who controls the future.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Real, And It Obfuscates the Requisite Question of Self-Determination in the Heart of U.S. Empire
28 Jan 2026
When political energy is channeled into opposing an individual, that energy is diverted from the work of building the popular power needed to challenge the empire he represents.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
For an ICU VA Nurse
28 Jan 2026
"For an ICU VA Nurse" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: The Palmer Raids, Labor Research Association, 1948
28 Jan 2026
“We forget easily in America. We have forgotten the story of the Palmer Raids.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
ICE Exposes Democratic Party Irrelevance
28 Jan 2026
The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them their marching orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on their agenda. They will not address the ICE violations of law and human and civil rights, or any other needs Democratic Party voters want them to address…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Trump Defends the Dollar in Venezuela and Democrats Are Glad
28 Jan 2026
The US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicólas Maduro to defend the dominance of the US dollar. Venezuela had been selling oil to China in China’s currency, the yuan.
Communist Party Marxist - Kenya , Booker Omole
Statement of Solidarity with the Islamic Republic of Iran Down with US Imperialism Forward with the Sovereignty and Dignity of Oppressed Nations
04 Feb 2026
The imperial assault on Iran is punishment for the crime of sovereignty, a protracted siege that oppressed nations worldwide recognize as a weapon threatening their own future.
Mafa Kwanisai Mafa
Trump, White Farmers and the War on Zimbabwe’s Sovereignty: Why Africans Must Reject this Neo-Colonial Push
04 Feb 2026
The push by white farmers to enlist Donald Trump in a compensation battle over Zimbabwean land is a brazen, neo-colonial plot to undo African liberation history.
Prince Kapone
Reuters’ ‘Market Story’ and the American Pole: PetroChina, Venezuelan Oil, and the Siege That Calls Itself Trade
04 Feb 2026
Reuters sells custodial plunder as a pricing issue, turning blockade into “market caution.” We restore the missing record: seizures, supervision, and the re-routing of Venezuelan oil revenue through imperial hands. We reframe the contradiction as doctrine—Fortress America tightening hemispheric…