| Black Agenda Report

Mark P. Fancher
If Iran has the Strait of Hormuz, What Can Black People Use for Leverage and Power?
13 May 2026
Tennessee just erased its only majority-Black voting district. Anger is justified but the deeper question is what Black people can do to gain and hold on to real power.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Similar Praxis of Jim Crow and Lord Voldemort (Or, Why the Democrat Party Ain’t Harry Potter)
13 May 2026
Democrats keep telling us that Jim Crow is a ghost of the past, but the Supreme Court's latest ruling proves otherwise.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
France Out of Africa! PASAI Shows the Way
13 May 2026
An international gathering of anti-imperialists in Nairobi, Kenya revealed the lies of “Africa Forward” as the presidents of France and Kenya made plans to continue the exploitation of a nation and its people.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Mastering the Universe: the Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class
13 May 2026
Rob Larson's Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do With Their Money, And Why You Should Hate Them Even More is a fiercely pleasurable polemic.
Kenyan government offers Red carpet for colonizers and a bloody nose for Anti-Imperialists
13 May 2026
The Ruto regime claims a Pan-African mandate when it sends police to Haiti, but it attacks and arrests Pan-African delegates when they gather in Nairobi.
Orinoco Tribune
Venezuela: Diosdado Cabello and Delcy Rodríguez Justify Controversial Alex Saab Deportation Amid Growing Backlash
20 May 2026
Delcy Rodríguez insists that every decision made since January 3 serves to benefit Venezuela. The deportation of Alex Saab to the U.S. discredits that claim.
Gary Wilson
From Louisiana to Havana: Law as a weapon against Black power and liberation
20 May 2026
The same legal machinery that once protected Jim Crow segregation has found a new way to strip Black voters of political power without touching the right to cast a ballot.
Nicholas Mwangi
Police tear gas and arrest protesters at France-Africa counter summit in Nairobi
20 May 2026
Organizers, activists, intellectuals, and international delegates were arrested in Nairobi during an anti-imperialist protest against the France–Africa Summit, which critics have described as an attempt at imperialist repositioning in East Africa.
Roger Harris , Sara Flounders
Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State
20 May 2026
The same week Cuba mobilized millions to defend its revolution, the White House imposed even more illegal measures in an effort to strangle the country into submission.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
That Sunday morning Mom cried …
20 May 2026
"That Sunday morning Mom cried …" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.