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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Graylan Hagler: Capitulation Masquerading as Political Thought
30 Apr 2025
Liberals continue to condemn anyone who didn’t support Kamala Harris and the latest iteration of neo-liberal treachery. Black people are told to stand down when there is a fight worth waging.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
30 Apr 2025
The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
Allen Myers
Vietnam: A Victory Never To Be Forgotten
07 May 2025
Vietnam’s defeat of U.S. forces stands as a landmark anti-colonial victory, proving that determined resistance can overcome even the world’s most powerful military—yet its legacy remains fiercely contested.
Maxwell Evans
South Side Neighbors Want Housing Protections Before City OKs ‘Luxury’ Hotel Near Obama Center
07 May 2025
Community residents say that Chicago's City Council should pass a slate of housing protections centered on low-income renters instead of advancing plans for a hotel near the Obama Center site.
Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team
Now is the Time for All Anti-Imperialists and All Justice Loving People to Stand Unequivocally in Defense of Burkina Faso
07 May 2025
The Black Alliance for Peace demands an end to U.S. and Western interference in Burkina Faso, the rejection of neocolonial policies in the Sahel, and a stance affirming Africans' rights to sovereignty.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Black Politics and Mutual Comradeship: A Manifesto
07 May 2025
From Gaza to Sudan to the streets of America, the oppressors of our time demand mass resistance. Not just protest, but an organized, unrelenting struggle. Black radical politics remind us that only collective power can dismantle the machinery of genocide, ecocide, and state violence.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Brittany Friedman’s Book, “Carceral Apartheid”
07 May 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
DOGE— Department Of Grifter Enrichment
07 May 2025
"DOGE— Department Of Grifter Enrichment" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jon Jeter
The Only Language the White Settler Speaks: Ohio Police Say Grieving Black Father Avenges Son’s Slaying By Killing One of Theirs
07 May 2025
The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a painful question: When justice is denied, does violence become the only language of resistance?
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: Thank you, Mr. Howe, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1967
07 May 2025
Ama Ata Aidoo lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism.