| Black Agenda Report

Luis Britto García
Venezuela Is Not Iran
19 Aug 2026
Venezuela is not Iran or Cuba, but those nations teach us that sovereignty is not given, but conquered through resistance. Venezuela must forge its own path toward sovereignty.
Hedelberto López Blanch
A shady figure will preside over Colombia
19 Aug 2026
Colombia's new president has ties to paramilitaries and drug traffickers, but Trump's endorsement swept his crimes aside, and now he has begun remaking the country in Israel's image.
Ramzy Baroud
Solidarity Is Not Enough
19 Aug 2026
Why the world must force accountability on Gaza now.
Kimberly D. Miller
Beyond the "Delcyification" of Analysis
19 Aug 2026
Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.
Abayomi Azikiwe
United States and Israeli Policy Further Divides Somalia
19 Aug 2026
White House to cut back on United Nations assistance while there is continued military and diplomatic interference by Washington and Tel Aviv. Originally published in Fighting Words.
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Who Killed Jason Arday?
19 Aug 2026
Arday was killed by the contradiction at the heart of elite institutions: they want the appearance of racial progress without structural change, and they discard anyone who becomes a liability.
Ryan Kost
A judge said Queens prosecutors hid evidence. A secret committee cleared them anyway.
19 Aug 2026
The system that convicted George Bell and his codefendants based on hidden evidence has now protected the prosecutors who hid it.
Wolfgang Bronner
North Nashville's Reckoning: The Fight for Sovereignty in the Shadow of a Data Center
19 Aug 2026
A $400 million tech center is presented as progress for North Nashville. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a century of land dispossession dressed up as economic development.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
They Wear The Masks
19 Aug 2026
"They Wear The Masks" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
"Woke 1" and Democratic Party Deceit
19 Aug 2026
The democrats’ backtracking on what they dismissively refer to as “wokeness” is the newest iteration of their political trickery as they yet again give the appearance of supporting what they actually oppose. They serve the interests of the oligarchs, and not those of the people.