Afeni is an activist and lead organizer with Herb and Temple in Washington, DC. She joins us from Washington to discuss Donald Trump’s declaration of…
Joy James is a writer and a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of the new book Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities…
The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-…
The Trump administration’s declaration of war on American cities is a logical escalation of the white supremacist project. This is not a policy shift…
“...white paranoia is here to stay/The white boy's scheming night and day/What you think about the King Alfred Plan?”
“Ethiopia just changed the continent of Africa forever.” -African Development Economist and electricity activist
"Department of War: What’s new is so old" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Turning the Caribbean into a US bombing range requires local collaborators. Neocolonial governments have volunteered to play this role, betraying…
The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of "nature-based solutions," corporations like the…
OMNIBUS
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Tracie Canada. Canada…
The US government left Black residents to die after Hurricane Katrina, refusing Cuba's offer of emergency doctors. This racist neglect exposed a…
The official response to Katrina was a catastrophic failure of the state. The real story of survival was written by a coalition of the discarded—ex-…
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…
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…
The strike on Doha shows that Arab regimes' silence and passivity in the face of Israeli violence will only invite further aggression.