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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Play, Black Girl, play! (For the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music’s girls)
18 Mar 2026
"Play, Black Girl, play! (For the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music’s girls)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cuba, Venezuela and Regime Change
18 Mar 2026
Regime change is possible but not inevitable. Forces claiming to be leftist and claiming to be revolutionary must actually live up to the true meaning of those words.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: Cuba is Fundamental to Us, Michael Manley, 1977
18 Mar 2026
“If you can do that to Cuba because somebody doesn't like the Cuban revolution, then how do I know that you don't do that to me tomorrow?”
Black Alliance For Peace
In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine
25 Mar 2026
The Prairieland Nine convictions are an example of lawfare designed to criminalize political dissent and intimidate movements challenging the national security state.
Josué Veloz Serrade
Cuba at the Crossroads of a Bogus Multilateralism
25 Mar 2026
“Cuba en la encrucijada de un multilateralismo hipócrita,” by Josué Veloz Serrade, appeared on La Tizza on 17 March 2026.
Junior “Spirit” Cottle
The US Military Blockade – Its Potential Impact on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
25 Mar 2026
St. Vincent legalized medicinal cannabis in 2018, but the industry cannot take off while US warships enforce a blockade. A nation cannot build a legal economy under military threat.
Ritaj Ibrahim
Immigrants as the Working Class: How States Import Labor to Delegitimize Revolt
25 Mar 2026
Gulf states like Qatar and the UAE have built a system where migrant workers perform the productive labor while being stripped of their legal and human rights.
Mark P. Fancher
When Black People are Xenophobic They Risk Black Deaths in Iran
25 Mar 2026
Black youth fed xenophobia instead of international solidarity become military pawns who risk their own lives and their people's liberation.
Hanna Eid
Structures of the Imperialist Assault on Iran
25 Mar 2026
The Axis of Resistance has forged a path of self-sufficiency that turned Iran into a power capable of challenging U.S. and zionist power.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Big Green + Big Tech = Bigger Environmental Racism: How Certain white-led “environmental” Groups are Selling out Frontline Communities to Accommodate Data Centers
25 Mar 2026
Big Green groups taking millions from Big Tech have abandoned vulnerable communities to become accomplices in data center proliferation rather than opponents.