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Erica Caines
Bound by Imperialism: Trinidad’s Role in U.S. Agenda
08 Jan 2025
Trinidad is experiencing an unprecedented crime wave. The state has responded by militarizing the police and loosening restrictions on their actions. To understand these mechanisms, one must look at Trinidad's relationship with the United States.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
NYC’s Congestion Pricing Program Comes with the Cost of Sacrificing Constitutionally Mandated Human Rights of NYC’s Environmental Justice Communities
08 Jan 2025
NYC's new congestion pricing program has grave environmental justice implications for poor, working class, and Black communities which will be subjected to increased pollution and poor air quality.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ghost of Jimmy Carter
08 Jan 2025
Hagiography is inevitable when presidents and other prominent people die. The unwillingness to ‘speak ill of the dead’ and the propaganda that would have us believe in American exceptionalism must be rejected. Jimmy Carter was always devoted to protecting the interests of the U.S. state.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Remembering Jamaica in the East/West Crossfire
08 Jan 2025
Jamaicans still remember their visionary leaders, Norman and Michael Manley, and the bloody general election of 1980.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Unconscionable Costs, Ronald V. Dellums, 1983
08 Jan 2025
The late Ronald V. Dellums shows us how to fight against the Pentagon-inspired madness of military spending and nuclear proliferation.
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
The War on Africans in Ecuador: an Interview with Uriel Castillo of MANE
15 Jan 2025
Over a month after the killings of four young boys in Ecuador, now known as the Guayaquil Four, the community is still reeling but is also activated. This case has sparked a movement that is raising awareness and organizing against the oppression of Africans in that country.
JP Sloan
all their deaths were ruled suicide
15 Jan 2025
for Aiyana, for Tommie, for Jordan.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis’s Book, “Abolish Rent”
15 Jan 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis. Their book is Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.
Business Ghana
Haiti, Africa, And the Unfinished Project Of Black Sovereignty
15 Jan 2025
In excerpts from a speech given in Accra, Ghana, BAR editor and contributor Dr. Jemima Pierre highlights the United Nations’ involvement in the 2004 coup d'état and the subsequent occupation of Haiti. In discussing the deployment of Kenyan troops as a U.S. proxy force during the…
Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #54
15 Jan 2025
Mozambique is experiencing a period of unrest provoked by recent elections. After unending suffering under neoliberal austerity measures and the encroachment of AFRICOM, the Mozambican people have taken to the streets. The Black Alliance for Peace's US Out of Africa Network (…