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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How the GOP is Saving the Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump…With Help From the Democrats
14 May 2025
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class communities pay the price.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: A Black Man’s Protest, Lamine Senghor, 1927
14 May 2025
“It is a lie that slavery has been abolished. It has only been modernized.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Corruption, Lies, Biden's Health and Trump's Victory
14 May 2025
The same corporate media talking heads who told us to ignore Biden’s failing health are now cashing in with books revealing political cover ups while also covering up their own role in facilitating corruption and inevitably a defeat.
Jon Jeter
Fleeing Imaginary Persecution at Home, South African ‘Refugees’ May Find the Grass is Not Greener in America
14 May 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming "persecution"—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resource decades after apartheid allegedly ended.
Hanna Eid
Whole Process People's Democracy: The Path Forward
14 May 2025
Growing socialist and people's democratic projects, as in China and Bolivia, must be seen as examples of how revolutionary forces in the United States can build a system of governance.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Saturday Mornings
14 May 2025
"Saturday Mornings" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Abayomi Azikiwe
DRC- Rwanda Agreement Could Prove Disastrous for African Great Lakes
14 May 2025
The United States' role in Central Africa has resulted in regional war and mass casualties.
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas
14 May 2025
Accelerating crises of imperialism in Haiti, Ecuador, and beyond highlight the urgent need for regional Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist unity and strategy.
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Black People Need Birthright Citizenship
07 Nov 2018
If white nationalists are allowed to abolish birthright citizenship, they will immediately move to de-Americanize as many Blacks as possible, for criminal convictions or poverty. “If birthright citizenship were to disappear, Black people would be victims along with the immigrant babies who are…
The Cradle News Desk
US Abandons 'Hamas Disarmament' Demands in Gaza Truce Talks: Report
14 May 2025
A reported rift between Trump and Netanyahu continues to widen ahead of the US president's first visit to West Asia since regaining power.