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Jaribu Hill
Solidarity, not Charity—End Jim Crow Recovery—Restore All Communities
27 Aug 2025
Jaribu Hill, Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, recounts the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast and the efforts to organize on behalf of the people.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Synergy of the Sacrificed: Katrina and the Praxis of Imperial Domination
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years after Katrina, the disaster stands not as an anomaly but as a blueprint. Its aftermath reveals a template for imperial domination, where "natural" disasters become pretexts for militarization, displacement, and the denial of the right of return to Black and Brown communities worldwide…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
"Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera" Documentary Premieres August 28
27 Aug 2025
Join political activist and Black Agenda Report’s contributing editor Ajamu Baraka and members of the Communist Party Marxist-Kenya on a trip to Kibera, Africa’s largest slum.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Ethnic cleansing called Katrina
27 Aug 2025
"Ethnic cleansing called Katrina" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Why We Remember Katrina
27 Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, the world witnessed more than the suffering of hurricane Katrina's victims. The United States was exposed as a failed state controlled by the cruelties of racialized capitalism.
Jon Jeter
From Jim Crow to Katrina to Gentrification, Tracing the Rise and Fall of New Orleans Working Class
27 Aug 2025
A forgotten history of cross-racial labor solidarity in 1890s New Orleans offered a glimpse of a potential future. Its deliberate destruction set the stage for the city's modern transformation into a model of gentrification and Black displacement.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: This is Criminal, Malik Rahim, New Orleans, September 1st, 2005
27 Aug 2025
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.”
The Editors
Black Agenda Report Will Return on September 10, 2025
02 Sep 2025
Black Agenda Report will return with our next issue on Wednesday, September 10. Please watch our new video, "Inequality in Kenya: View From Kibera," produced in collaboration with the North-South Project for People(s) - Centered Human Rights on the new Black Agenda Report Youtube Channel. Please…
Sarah B.
Gaza to Donbass: How Israel and Ukraine Built a Fascist, Transnational War Machine
10 Sep 2025
From Bandera to Ben-Gurion, an axis of ethno-supremacy is rising, fueled by U.S. backing. Same guns. Same flags. Same ideology. Gaza and Donbass are not separate wars. They are one machine.
Jacqueline Luqman
The Military Occupation of Washington, DC: Then and Now
10 Sep 2025
The current military occupation of DC is not an anomaly but an escalation of a long war on Black communities, a more visible form of ongoing political subjugation.