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Julia Wright
What Happens When You Cannot Describe What Your Eyes See?
26 Feb 2025
State and corporate media control through censorship is intended to have a psychological effect on the masses. The genocide in Palestine reveals the dangers of this depraved effort. What happens when we are told not to believe what we see?
Ryan S.
Elon Musk and DOGE Slash Funding for Major Black Kansas City Neighborhood Councils
26 Feb 2025
Elon Musk & DOGE are targeting one of Kansas City’s most prominent Black-led neighborhood councils—slashing a federal grant and threatening a vital food sovereignty movement.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Is this ‘Constructive Engagement' 2.0— Or, Freddo frontin’ for Heil tech Hitler?
05 Mar 2025
"Constructive Engagement 2.0— or Freddo frontin’ for heil-tech Hitler?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
DOCUMENT: My Last Will and Testament, Mary McLeod Bethune, 1955
05 Mar 2025
Mary McLeod Bethune’s testament to a good, ethical life.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Commemorate Genocide against the People of DR Congo
05 Mar 2025
The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the Genocide against the people of DR Congo to be commemorated on August 2nd, the anniversary of Rwanda and Uganda’s 1998 invasion of Congo. I spoke to CAYP’s Gaëtan-Dauphin Nzowo.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Liberals Want War in Ukraine, Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But All Agree on Death in Gaza
05 Mar 2025
Donald Trump’s efforts to normalize relations with Russia, and to end the fighting in the Ukraine proxy war are logical and sensible. But years of whipped up anti-Russia hatred make logical solutions difficult to achieve, with democrats trying to fight his change of course. While Russia is a hot…
Jon Jeter
In Maryland, Cracking Down on a Crime Wave that Doesn’t Exist With Laws That Don’t Work
05 Mar 2025
Maryland has been enforcing harsher criminal laws, using the claim of a crime wave that does not exist. This crackdown funnels Black children into an incredibly draconian legal system. Now, there is a push to intervene and pass new legislation intended to reduce the number of offenses that will…
Hanna Eid
American Lumpen Development - The Data Center Boom
05 Mar 2025
The rise of the data and technology industry plays a key role in the rapid deterioration of social and economic conditions in the U.S.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Eurocentric U.S. “Left” Carries Water for Neoliberal Right, Again: Response to the Ukraine Solidarity Network
05 Mar 2025
It comes as no surprise that elements among the left continue to do the bidding of Western imperialist forces. The recent statement from the Ukrainian Solidarity Network exemplifies the left's complete abandonment of a principled material analysis.
Gavin O'Reilly
Zelensky and Netanyahu - A Tale of Two White House Visits
05 Mar 2025
The contrast between the reception of Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu upon their visits to the White House was stark. This treatment seems to signal a shift in the Trump administration's international priorities and policy.