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David S. D'Amato
The FBI’s Long History of Criminalizing Dissent
10 Oct 2023
The indictment of the Uhuru 3 is part of a long history of persecution and prosecution of the Black liberation movement.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Daniel McNeil’s Book, “Thinking While Black”
10 Oct 2023
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Daniel McNeil. McNeil is a professor in the Department of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and the Queen’s National Scholar Chair in Black Studies. His book is…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: National identity and Foreign Domination, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1982
06 Dec 2023
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o reminds us that the primary contradiction in Africa is imperialism and its meek comprador bourgeoisie enforcers.
Maurice Carney
D.R. Congo’s Challenges: Elections, Rwanda’s War of Aggression and Critical Minerals for Green Transition
06 Dec 2023
The ongoing crisis is a result of converging forces determined to pursue their own interests by controlling the affairs within the Congo and subjecting the masses to inhumane conditions.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MESSAGE: The Palestine National Liberation Movement AL-FATEH to Africa
06 Dec 2023
Al-Fateh’s communique at the 1969 Festival of Pan-African Culture offered a brilliant analysis of the overlapping histories of European colonialism and white supremacy in Africa and Palestine.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black People Won't Be Silenced About Israel
06 Dec 2023
As the US continues to conflate every criticism of Zionism with anti-semitism, the predicable happens once again. Black people are used as an avatar of anti-Jewish sentiment. This tactic will not stop Black people from supporting the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Jon Jeter
Fifty-four Years Later, Fred Hampton’s Martyrdom Looms Large Over Palestinians’ Freedom Struggle
06 Dec 2023
The thread connecting the struggles of Black and Palestinian liberation makes itself known in the propagandistic attacks on the Palestinian resistance. The assassination of Fred Hampton helps illustrate how these tactics are a replication of those used against the Panthers and other Black…
Maya RIchard-Craven
The Hidden Toll of Hurricane Katrina on the Mental Health of Black Survivors
29 Nov 2023
Survivors open up about struggles with lingering post-traumatic stress disorder 18 years after the storm
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Black Misleaders Promote Zionism
22 Nov 2023
As zionists ramp up the pressure, the Black misleadership class readily succumbs to protect their precious positions and dubious prominence.
Djibo Sobukwe
Why Africans / Black Folks Should Oppose Zionism: Some Aspects of a Racist Imperialist Ideology in Africa and the Americas
15 Nov 2023
Colonized people must be in solidarity with the oppressed and by definition, that means being anti-zionist.