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Cira Pascual Marquina
Multipolarity, Internationalism and Tomorrow’s Elections in Venezuela: A Conversation with Carlos Ron (Part II)
31 Jul 2024
The Instituto Simón Bolívar president places Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election in the global context.
Pan-African Community Action PACA 2568)
Pan-African Community Action Condemns the U.S. Settler State for the Murder of Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
The murder of Sonya Massey by the Illinois police is a symptom of a larger, deeply rooted, systemic assault on Black and Brown working-class communities. The only way to protect the people and resist this violence is through community-based organizing.
Jon Jeter
How the Democratic Party Committed Suicide by Biting the Black Hands That Feed It
31 Jul 2024
The Democratic Party dug its own grave decades ago when it began trying to siphon from the GOP by appealing to conservatives and ignoring the needs of its strong base of African American people.
Netfa Freeman
The Ruthless and Desperate Pursuit of U.S. Influence and Access Over Africa
31 Jul 2024
AFRICOM is growing more bold in its attempts to maintain dominance over the African continent. Now is the time for Pan-African and Black Nationalist forces to organize to sabotage those efforts and support the masses struggling to free themselves from the yoke of imperialism.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Stands in Solidarity with Venezuela Against the Assault on its Democracy
31 Jul 2024
The election interference and subsequent US backed protests in Venezuela are another attempt to destabilize the nation and stop the ongoing Bolivarian Revolution. But the masses will remain strong.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris
31 Jul 2024
If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives.
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Presidential Politics and the Palestinian Question
31 Jul 2024
The visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States highlights the role of imperialism in the genocide in Gaza.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Victims’ Pact: Rwanda and Israel
31 Jul 2024
Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: In Our Hands: Thoughts on Black Music, Bernice Johnson Reagon, 1976
31 Jul 2024
For the late Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Black music was a tool in the struggle for Black liberation, and not what it has mostly become today: a retrograde appendage to neoliberalism and white power.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
How to Protest for Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
Sonya Massey’s brutal murder at the hands of the police has resulted in anguish and anger but no difference in how state violence is protested. Instead, we see surrender to the crumbs of condolences and fake concern expressed by people who have the power to stop the killing.