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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Cuba will not surrender! Cuba persists and resists! And that persistence is intolerable to the empire!
10 Jun 2026
Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, at the commemoration of the 95th birthday of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and the 65th anniversary of the creation of the Ministry of the…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Gambling Man
10 Jun 2026
"Gambling Man" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: All the World’s a Ball, Eduardo Galeano, 1998
10 Jun 2026
“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
Francis Phillip
Security Crises Around the Sahel: Nigeria and the Alliance of Sahel States
10 Jun 2026
The Alliance of Sahel States are fighting against western backed terrorists. But neighboring Nigeria is a western puppet state and does not protect its own people or territorial integrity, choosing instead to back U.S. dictates.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Obama Center is a Monument to the More Effective Evil
10 Jun 2026
Barack Obama bailed out the banks, deported millions, and devastated nations and millions of people through wars of aggression. The $850 million Obama Center is a monument to his role as the "more effective evil" in U.S. politics.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Beautiful Game Can’t Hide the Ugly
10 Jun 2026
The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Bolivia in Crisis pt 2: In Conversation with Evo Morales
10 Jun 2026
In a Black Agenda Report exclusive on May 29, 2026, former Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma spoke with correspondent Clau O’Brien Moscoso.
Jessica Washington
D.C. Mayor Candidates Are Fixating on Teen Hangouts — and Turning the Cops on Them
17 Jun 2026
D.C. mayoral candidate Kenyan McDuffie supports curfews targeting youth. His opponent Janeese Lewis George disagrees but Washington's colonial status and its lack of home rule make any debate irrelevant.
Gregory P. Downs
The Hidden History of Juneteenth
17 Jun 2026
Most people think Juneteenth was simply when enslaved Texans learned they were free, but that is a myth. They knew the war ended but the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took months of occupation and struggle against planters who refused to give up their human property.
Black Alliance For Peace
World Cup 2026: FIFA and the U.S.’s White Supremacist Colonial Partnership is already on Full Display
17 Jun 2026
FIFA has shown itself to be a colonial instrument that serves white supremacy and U.S. imperialism. Referees, players, and fans from non-white nations are being harassed, denied entry, and brutalized while FIFA looks away.