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Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The U.S. Can’t Control the World
07 Apr 2021
Slow-witted Joe Biden appears to think that we’re still in the age of the sole superpower, when in fact that era has come and gone.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
PAMPHLET: Africa Fights for Freedom, Alpheaus Hunton, 1950
07 Apr 2021
A pamphlet written 70 years ago by an exiled Black American communist reveals an African continent seething to break free from European colonization.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Rwanda and Zaire (DRC) 1990 to 1997, Where the US Blocked Real Humanitarian Intervention
07 Apr 2021
The real story of the Rwandan genocide begins in 1990, when exiled Tutsis from Uganda invaded northern Rwanda, unleashing a deadly campaign that uprooted a million Hutu peasants and set ethnic tens
by Jahan Choudhry, Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
07 Apr 2021
In "On Anarchism and Black Revolution" Peter James Hudson examines the historical roots of critiques of anarchism and its relationship to Black liberation movements.
Troizel Carr
BAR Book Forum: Short Meditations on Christina Sharpe’s “In the Wake”
07 Apr 2021
Being in the wake, in the afterlives of slavery…is to be caught in the reverberating aftermath of a long disaster, a durational dance with danger, with terror.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s “Becoming Kwame Ture”
07 Apr 2021
The Stokely Carmichael of the 60s continued to politically and ideologically evolve while in Africa where he adopts the names of his political mentors Sekou Toure and Kwame Nkrumah.
Todd Cronan
Fanon Can’t Save You Now
07 Apr 2021
The great revolutionary foresaw the need to “rapidly switch from a national consciousness to a social and political consciousness” committed to the “distribution of wealth and social relations.”
Amanuel Biedemariam
The Global Anti-Eritrea-Ethiopia Agenda
07 Apr 2021
It is not up to the US to demand or dictate that Eritrea withdraw from Ethiopia -- it is Ethiopia’s and only Ethiopia’s call to make.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Still Unsolved: the Great Crime that Triggered the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
07 Apr 2021
After 27 years, strong evidence implicates Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame and the CIA in the downing of Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana’s airplane.
keith harmon snow
“Hotel Rwanda” Hero Kidnapped: Another Victim of Rwanda’s Grinding Machine
07 Apr 2021
Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame is a mass murdered enabled by the US, and the Rwanda genocide story told by western governments and their media is the exact opposite of the truth.