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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.
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…
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.
David K. Cobb
The Working Families Party and Fusion Voting: A Historical and Political Analysis
12 Mar 2025
The Working Families Party presents itself as a political party that works for the interest of working class people. However, the party behaves more like a sheepdog for the Democratic party.
Sharon Zhang
Israel Wiped Out at Least 1,200 Entire Families in Gaza, Analysis Finds
12 Mar 2025
The horrible toll of Israel's genocide in Gaza is still being revealed. There are also at least 3,400 families with only one surviving member, Palestinian officials have said.
Briahna Joy Gray
Why Did MSNBC Cancel Joy Reid?
12 Mar 2025
Some speculated that racism explains the firing of the liberal anchor. But MSNBC doesn't have a problem with Black hosts. They have a problem with pro-Palestine ones.
The Mapping Project
The Revolution Will Not Be Signaled
12 Mar 2025
The messaging app Signal is touted as being a safe harbor from state surveillance. However, its connections to large corporate entities make organizers more vulnerable than they may think.
Dylan Sullivan , Jason Hickel
Plundering Africa – Income Deflation and Unequal Ecological Exchange Under Structural Adjustment Programmes
12 Mar 2025
Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes…
Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Lawfare in Perú: Trial of Rupture
12 Mar 2025
The trial of former Peruvian president Pedro Castillo, the victim of a 2022 lawfare-style coup, has begun. The legal process used against him is a sham covering up the human rights abuses committed against Castillo and the people of Peru.