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Iker Suarez
Mass Deportation as Ethnic Cleansing: on the Ongoing War
12 Feb 2025
The United States is a colonial empire, repressing and exploiting colonized peoples domestically and internationally. Mass deportations are a function of ethnic cleansing and a continuation of U.S. settler colonial history.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights
12 Feb 2025
When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: White Racism and Black Consciousness, Stephen Bantu Biko, 1971
12 Feb 2025
Steve Biko long ago diagnosed the pathological cruelty and rot of white society.
Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III
Dr. Wilmer Leon: When they tell you about their own, believe them
19 Feb 2025
"When people show you who they are, believe them" remains true when we examine the sorry state of the U.S. political arena. Both major political parties have made clear their priorities - and those are opposed to those of the people.
Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team
U.S.-led Imperialism Is Directly Responsible for Turmoil in the Democratic Republic of Congo
19 Feb 2025
Western nations are fueling the atrocities Rwanda is inflicting on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite the unrelenting aggression, the Congolese people are resisting. International solidarity from all progressive forces and people of conscience is needed to demand an end to this crisis and…
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Malcolm X, Black Nationalism and the Cold War
19 Feb 2025
United States intelligence agencies kept close watch over developments in the African American struggle for freedom, justice, equality and self-determination after the conclusion of the Second Imperialist War.
Nato Koury
Guantánamo Bay’s forgotten history of detaining Haitian migrants
19 Feb 2025
The threats by the Trump administration to detain migrants in Guantanamo Bay will not be the first time the United States has used the facility for migrant detention. Not too long ago, Haitian migrants were held in Guantanamo Bay and forced to live in inhumane conditions.
Jon Jeter
Another Love TKO: Falling Marriage Rates Stagger Black Family Formation, and Community Development
19 Feb 2025
The economic stress on African American people shows itself in phenomena like marriage rates. What once was a benefit to Black communities and a path to the middle class, marriage is becoming harder to sustain with low wages and few options for employment.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
STICKUP: MORE for the GREEDY; less for the needy!!
19 Feb 2025
"STICKUP: MORE for the GREEDY; less for the needy!!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Fall of Eric Adams
19 Feb 2025
Eric Adams has a multitude of legal and political problems that have ended any political ambitions he may have had. Donald Trump may have kept him from going to jail, but in seeking a lifeline from a president hated by most New Yorkers, he has sealed his fate and will go down in history as the anti…