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Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network
Report: The Anti-Imperialist Upsurge in the Sahel and the Historic Conference in Niamey
27 Nov 2024
The Black Alliance for Peace and U.S. Out of Africa Network provided this report following their participation in the “Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel”.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Harry Haywood, Black People, and the 2024 U.S. Election
27 Nov 2024
Harry Haywood’s work is a guiding light to help Black people analyze our position in the U.S. and rethink how we might engage in electoral politics. Are we building power toward revolution or are we adding fuel to this destructive empire?
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Zionist Effort to Defund Climate and Environmental Justice
27 Nov 2024
Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not been spared in this wave of Zionist repression.
Kodjovi Kpachavi
Lawton’s Second Parasite: The Empire’s First Cobalt Refinery
27 Nov 2024
The domestic expression of imperialism has once again been made clear with the installation of a new cobalt refinery in an Oklahoma town. Through the extraction of raw materials from the global south using exploited labor, a U.S. corporation continues the practice of contaminating the environment…
Jon Jeter
A Grisly Kansas City Killing Shines a Light on Settler Colonialism’s ‘Boomerang Effect’
27 Nov 2024
The settler colony known as the United States inflicts violence upon Black people as a function of its existence. But the murder of a mother and her infant daughter by Missouri police officers is illustrative of how the violence usually directed at Black people inevitably impacts others…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Peoples Summit vs G20
27 Nov 2024
The People’s Summit vs. G20 and the International People’s Tribunal recently took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to counter the G20 Summit that occurred in the same city. Black Agenda Report Contributor, Claudia O’Brien Moscoso reporting from Rio, joined Margaret Kimberley for a discussion about…
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The End of American Thanksgivings: A Cause for Universal Rejoicing
27 Nov 2024
Glen Ford wrote many powerful essays, but his unflinching analysis of the history of the holiday we call Thanksgiving endures 20 years after he wrote it.
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
COP29 Summit Marked by Acrimonious Debate Over Emissions and Finance
27 Nov 2024
Annual climate gathering reflects divisions between the industrialized states and the Global South.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Without Including Biden and Blinken and the Issue of Genocide, International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants Are a Sham
27 Nov 2024
The International Criminal Court finally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, but this action is merely performative. If arrest warrants do not include war criminals like Joe Biden and other U.S. officials, they are ultimately empty attempts to maintain a semblance of…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Washington Post Attacks Eritrean Americans for Organizing in their Own Defense
27 Nov 2024
The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.