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Roger D. Harris
Why the US Is Reimposing Sanctions on Venezuela
07 Feb 2024
The United States once again failed in its attempt to force regime change in Venezuela and extinguish the growth of socialism in South America. Therefore, it reverted to its old and unsuccessful tactic to destabilize the nation through sanctions.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Resistance History
07 Feb 2024
Black scholars have worked to challenge the accepted white supremacist imperialist historical narrative of colonialism and enslavement. The legacy of the Haitian Revolution sits at the center of this effort to resist this narrative and provides an incalculable impact on the work of these radical…
Alana Lentin
Reading Cedric Robinson At a Time of Genocide
07 Feb 2024
Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism can be used as a tool to further expand our understanding of Israel's settler colonial domination over Palestine.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Genocidal Joseph’s coat of many logos or Boss Tweet’s swastika sensibilities?
07 Feb 2024
"Genocidal Joseph’s coat of many logos or Boss Tweet’s swastika sensibilities?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Democrats and the Mediocre Black Misleaders
07 Feb 2024
The Democrats offer nothing but fake opposition and the duopoly is splitting. The chosen Black spokespeople are predictably hacks who get paid to spout meaningless drivel.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DECLARATION: A DECLARATION AGAINST IMPERIALISM, Adopted at the National Planning Conference PULL THE COVERS OFF IMPERIALISM PROJECT Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975
07 Feb 2024
A 1975 “Declaration Against Imperialism” provides a blueprint for the anti-imperialist Black Studies of the future.
Max Parthas
The Evolution of Slavery
07 Feb 2024
In the U.S., a nation built on the enslavement and exploitation of humans, the system of slavery cannot be destroyed. It has merely changed from one form to another.
Abayomi Azikiwe
African Emigration and the United States Civil War
14 Feb 2024
Through flight and rebellion, enslaved people created the conditions for their on liberation.
Ludo De Witte
Myth-Busting: Dag Hammarskjöld, Katanga, and the coup against the Lumumba government
14 Feb 2024
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, was one of the architects of the Congo crisis that led to the removal and murder of the country’s first leader, Patrice Lumumba. It's time to reveal the true role of the UN, and Hammarskjöld, in the imperialist catastrophe that savaged the Congo in…
Tamara Nassar
“Genocide Joe” sets the tone for US election year
14 Feb 2024
Protests have trailed Biden and others in his administration for months in response to the genocide in Gaza.