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Black Alliance For Peace
From George Floyd Back to the Structural Violence of Capitalism
28 May 2025
With the ritualistic murder of George Floyd by the occupation forces referred to as the police that roam the streets and barrios of the Black and Brown colonized communities in the United States, the Black Alliance for Peace declared that justice was impossible, no matter how the colonial state…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Fall of 2020: How Liberals Ceded Solidarity and Engineered Social Justice Solitude
28 May 2025
The 2020 uprisings could have sparked a multiracial working-class movement against systemic oppression, but liberal elites defanged its radical potential. By reducing Black liberation to performative activism and corporate DEI schemes, they preserved the very structures that murdered George Floyd.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
One Big Beautiful Bank Job!
28 May 2025
"One Big Beautiful Bank Job!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Jon Jeter
Following Kamala’s Script, Maryland Governor Vetoes Reparations Bill, Angering Black Voters He Will Need in White House Bid
28 May 2025
By vetoing a bill to study reparations, Maryland Governor Wes Moore has aligned himself with a long line of Black Democrats who prioritize white approval over their own base.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Intellectual Origins of Imperialism and Zionism, Edward Said, 1977
28 May 2025
“In theory and in practice, then, Zionism is a degraded repetition of European imperialism.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Charles Rangel and the End of Black Politics
28 May 2025
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Independent, Sovereign Eritrea Stays the Course
28 May 2025
Eritrea remains true to the revolutionary ideals forged during its 30-year War of Independence.
Aby L. Sène
Drones, Elephants and Imperialist Interests in Africa
04 Jun 2025
Conservation in Africa has long been a smokescreen for imperial power. Veiled behind the cause of environmentalism and stopping poachers, western governments, intelligence agencies, and billionaire-funded NGOs expand their reach by deploying drones, private armies, and surveillance tech.
Abdirahman M. Ahmed
Using Lessons from the Horn of Africa to Protect the Alliance of Sahelian States
04 Jun 2025
The Horn of Africa was filled with hope in 2018, when Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed an agreement promising regional cooperation on trade, culture, and security, but that hope has been dashed by renewed…
Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network
AFRICOM Watch Bulletin #56
04 Jun 2025
The Congo remains ground zero for Africa’s resource wars, where Rwanda and Uganda act as looters for the West. While international scrutiny has largely focused on Rwanda’s aggression, Uganda’s role in the systematic looting of Congolese resources has evaded comparable condemnation.