| Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Ryan Coogler, Shedeur Sanders, Karmelo Anthony, and Rodney Hinton, Jr
07 May 2025
Black people who are among the rich and famous garner praise and love, and so do those who are in distress. But concerns for the masses of people and their struggles are often missing.
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.
Tennyson S.D. Joseph
False Promises, False Hopes: The Africa-CARICOM Summit
14 May 2025
A forward-looking critique of African and Caribbean collaborations embodied in the Africa-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Summit.
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.
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.
Terri Frick
Black People, Palestine, and the Maintenance of Empire
14 May 2025
Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global justice.
Moussa Ibrahim
How Western Churches Hijacked African Christianity—and How It's Fighting Back
14 May 2025
The future of the Christian church on the continent depends on the ability to develop an authentic African Christianity, moving away from its westernized forms.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Saturday Mornings
14 May 2025
"Saturday Mornings" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
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.
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.