COINTELPRO

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Black Radicalism and the Return of the “Subversive Negro”
16 Sep 2026
NSPM-7 and the State Department's international campaign against "far-left political terrorism" represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing…
Michael Steven Smith
Meet the Radical Legal Collective That Won Justice for Fred Hampton and Continues Fighting to This Day
09 Sep 2026
Longtime attorney Flint Taylor’s new book tells the story of the People’s Law Collective, which grew out of the radical movements of the late 1960s.
Dhoruba bin-Wahad
Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Co-Founder of Black Liberation Army, Reflects on the Legacy of Assata Shakur and Revolutionary Sacrifice
03 Jun 2026
On May 30, 2026, a Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Assata Shakur was held at the Riverside Church in New York City. Dhoruba Bin Wahad, co-founder of the Black Liberation Army, wrote these words…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Turtle Island Liberation Front Warning for Activists
17 Dec 2025
Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a "…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Die Nigger, Die! H. Rap Brown, 1969
26 Nov 2025
“Blackness alone is not revolutionary.”
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Not Your Daddy's COINTELPRO: Obama Brands Assata Shakur "Most Wanted Terrorist"
01 Oct 2025
In 2013 Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder declared Assata Shakur a Most Wanted Terrorist, placing a $2 million bounty on her head. The late Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report Managing…
Dhoruba bin-Wahad
Rise of Militarized Policing in Response to Black Dissent
08 May 2024
The United States continues to grow the police state to serve as a bulwark of counterinsurgency.
Dhoruba bin-Wahad
55th Anniversary of the NY Panther 21 Case
03 Apr 2024
The trial of the New York Panther 21 was the moment in the Black liberation movement that ushered in an era of intensified state repression and violence and increasingly aggressive tactics…
Hanna Eid
Black-Palestinian Solidarity; Clearing the Fog
28 Feb 2024
While revolutionary Black organizations after the Panthers continued to support Palestine vocally, the realities of COINTELPRO and mass incarceration have had a profound impact on the organization…
David S. D'Amato
The FBI’s Long History of Criminalizing Dissent
10 Oct 2023
The indictment of the Uhuru 3 is part of a long history of persecution and prosecution of the Black liberation movement.