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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LYRICS: Bicentennial Blues, Gil Scott-Heron, 1976
01 Jul 2026
“George Washington/Slave-owner general/Ironic that the father of this country/ Should be a slave owner/The father of this country a slave-owner.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Barack Obama, George Washington and the 4th of July
01 Jul 2026
The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight, although he offers nothing new. He will be in the pocket of the oligarchy for the rest of his life, and that means he must continue to erase the history of Black people in order to stay in their good graces. Now he…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Fujimorismo 2.0: The Age of Keiko Fujimori: The Hard Right Advances in Latin America and the Caribbean, strengthening the Shield of the Americas
01 Jul 2026
Keiko Fujimori won the Peruvian presidency with help from the U.S. ambassador. Her victory solidifies the U.S. Shield of the Americas that is recolonizing the region.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
F$$K the Fourth: Declaring Our Collective Independence from the Sinking Ship of U.S. Empire
01 Jul 2026
The settler colonial state is now more corrupt and more unequal than even the genocidal "founding fathers" imagined.
Booker Omole
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei’s Legacy Will Outlive US Imperialism
08 Jul 2026
Statement on the Funeral of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei by the General Secretary, Booker Omole, Communist Party Marxist Kenya.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Detroit People’s Tribunal Takes Mask off ICE
08 Jul 2026
Activists gathered from various areas of Michigan to report on the excesses and brutality of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and local police, which are carried out with the complicity of political officials.
Hanna Eid
Sovereignty and Strategic Depth
08 Jul 2026
The U.S. and Israel treat negotiations as a weapon to destabilize and disarm the region, but Iran and Hezbollah have shown that real sovereignty requires connecting every front in a unified anti-colonial struggle.
Navid Zarrinnal
The Iranian Revolution and African Solidarity
08 Jul 2026
Iran's 1979 revolution was a victory for national sovereignty which also forged solidarity with African people.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Kagame Regime Must Not Be Allowed to Seize the Archives of the ICTR
08 Jul 2026
The records of the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda should not be surrendered to the Rwandan regime led by President Paul Kagame.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: “I was deported because I fought colour bar” Claudia Jones, 1956
08 Jul 2026
“I was deported from the U.S.A, because as a Negro woman Communist of West Indian descent, I was a thorn in their side…”