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Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Slimy green cesspool reflecting capitalist rule
22 Jul 2026
"Slimy green cesspool reflecting capitalist rule" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Cuba's President Responds to Marco Rubio's War Propaganda
22 Jul 2026
Cuba's president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, posted this statement in response to the State Department report on his X/Twitter account.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Building Black Self-Determination and Ending the Politics of Fear
22 Jul 2026
Black political self-determination is always tenuous, even when Black people hold office. Now that DSA and other leftists are winning elections, the contradictions of Black politics are becoming more and more acute.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
INTERVIEW: How the Cuban Revolution was Made, Fidel Castro, 1979
22 Jul 2026
“In other words, people revolted against the system. But they did not know that the system was called capitalism.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Marco Rubio Represents a Clear and Present Threat to Global Climate Liberation…So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him?
22 Jul 2026
The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other nations their sovereignty through imperialist violence, but the U.S. climate movement is more comfortable talking only about emissions.
Sharon Kyle
Cuba Is Being Punished for Refusing Dependency
29 Jul 2026
Baba Akili and Thandiwe Abdullah returned from Havana with an eyewitness account of empty streets, failing hospitals and a people enduring the latest chapter of a long U.S. campaign against Caribbean self-determination.
Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
Anti-Haitianism: A Hemispheric Rejection of Black Humanity
29 Jul 2026
From the United States to the Dominican Republic to the Bahamas, the violence, collective scapegoating, and mass deportation of Haitians lay bare a particular kind of anti-Blackness. Anti-Haitianism not only denies the humanity of Haitians, but originates in tandem with the West’s fears of…
Gary Wilson
House Votes to Lock Israel Into U.S. War Machine for Wider War
29 Jul 2026
The House voted to permanently merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Israel has some control over the U.S. war machine, and Washington locks in a forward base in West Asia.
Ramzy Baroud
The Spark in Tell: How a Village Resistance Disrupted Israel’s West Bank Strategy
29 Jul 2026
Palestinians have the right to defend themselves under international law and they exercised it in the town of Tell on the West Bank.
Mark P. Fancher
The Foolish, Futile Struggle to be Both African and American Will be Televised
29 Jul 2026
Corporate media require American identity politics which contradict African authenticity.