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Orisanmi Burton
An open letter to prison officials on the censorship of Tip of the Spear
09 Oct 2024
Orisanmi Birton's groundbreaking book, Tip of the Spear, has been listed as contraband in prisons across the country, not only preventing incarcerated people from accessing the book but punishing them if it is found in their possession. These institutions consider Burton's book to be too subversive…
Black Alliance For Peace
The Meaning of October 7th: An Oppressed People Will Always Find a Way to Resist Oppression
09 Oct 2024
Black Alliance for Peace will never abandon the Rights of Palestinian People to Resist Zionist Colonialism “By Any Means Necessary”
Jon Jeter
From Axis of Resistance to Political Cuckolds: How Palestinians, African Americans and Black South Africans Were Betrayed by Their Own
09 Oct 2024
One of the many unfortunate common threads between Palestinians, South Africans, and African Americans is the betrayal of the people by their political leadership who were meant to lead them into a better future. Instead, they were abandoned while those leaders became puppets of…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: George Lipsitz’s Book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere”
09 Oct 2024
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is George Lipsitz. Lipsitz is Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His book is The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Plutocratic pendulum swings …
09 Oct 2024
"Plutocratic pendulum swings …" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Britain Cedes Control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius While Maintaining Pentagon Base
09 Oct 2024
After nearly six decades, the right to self-determination and independence is still being denied to the Indigenous people as the United States prepares for expanding imperialist wars in Asia and Africa.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Rethinking Race, Rethinking Class, Charles W. Mills, 1995
09 Oct 2024
“We need to give greater theoretical centrality to the fact that European conquest of the world has established what is in effect: global white supremacy.”
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
October 7th, The Election and Capitalist Crisis, A Conversation with Ajamu Baraka
09 Oct 2024
Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka discuss the US upcoming presidential election, and the historic events unfolding in Western Asia - where Israel continues its onslaught of the region with an invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and a limited response from…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Social Media Beyond Corporate Control
09 Oct 2024
Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and the Death of Black Politics
09 Oct 2024
The indictment of New York City mayor Eric Adams is the latest example of moribund Black politics. Rich donors and corporate media decide who will be elected to office, while the people’s needs go unaddressed.