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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Biden's Marijuana Policy Frees No One
12 Oct 2022
Biden's announcement of pardons for federal convictions of marijuana possession is meaningless. The pardons free no one from prison and don't even expunge records.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
TESTIMONY: Temwayaj Kout Kouto, 1937: Eyewitnesses to the Genocide
12 Oct 2022
Rarely do we hear from the victims of the 1937 genocide of Haitians at the Haiti-Dominican border. Their memories are one of unimaginable violence.
The Editors
Haiti Special Issue
12 Oct 2022
Black Agenda Report focuses on Haiti in this week's issue.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Trump Calls for Peace in Ukraine While Democrats Make Support for War a Midterm Campaign Issue
12 Oct 2022
Donald Trump is no peace maker, but his stance on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine is in stark contrast to that of the democrats, who fully support continuing the dangerous proxy war against Russia. Anti-war forces must step up and struggle for peace.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Imperialist Militarism and the African Crisis
12 Oct 2022
The U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, and all iterations of foreign interference bring instability to the African continent.
Eduardo Campos Lima
Brazilian Muslims Demand Harvard Return Skull of Enslaved Man Who Fought in Uprising
19 Oct 2022
Universities and museums around the world still hold human remains in their collections. Harvard University follows this discredited practice and has the skull of an enslaved Brazilian who took part in the 1835 Malês uprising.
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
The Black Alliance for Peace Opposes Biden Administration’s Security Council Resolution on Haiti and Calls for its Veto
19 Oct 2022
The Haiti/Americas Team of Black Alliance for Peace explains that Haiti's problems are caused by the imperialist gang, who stymy Haitian sovereignty and self-determination at every turn. The next occupation plot must be vetoed in the UN Security Council by the Russian Federation and/or the People's…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Vincent Lloyd’s Book, “Black Dignity”
19 Oct 2022
This week’s featured author is Vincent Lloyd. Lloyd is professor of theology and religious studies and the director of the Center for Political Theology at Villanova University. His book is Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
We were L.A.—way before they…
19 Oct 2022
“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” —James Baldwin Venom-drenched recorded conversation of rattler city council criminals—with Labor serpent fluent in Forked Tongue—poisoned the smog—City of Angels Ruled by devils… Not our Chicano…
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Tulsi Gabbard May Have Left the Democratic Party, But She Isn’t Helping the Left
19 Oct 2022
Tulsi Gabbard cultivated an image as an anti-war progressive, but her endorsement of Joe Biden, and support for conservative positions culminated in an exit from the democratic party which revealed her right wing and racist politics.