Colonialism

Isabel Lourenço
The Only Fair Negotiation Between Morocco and the Polisario: When, Not If, to End the Occupation
06 Aug 2025
Morocco's colonial project in Western Sahara has persisted not through legitimacy, but through the complicity of other nations and United Nations inaction.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: Why We Use Violence, Frantz Fanon, 1960
23 Jul 2025
“This violence of the colonial regime…irreparably provokes the birth of an internal violence in the colonized people.”
Imani Nile
The Scramble for Mount Vernon? How Capitalists and their Black Middlemen are Colonizing the Jewel of Westchester County, New York
23 Jul 2025
A majority Black city in Westchester County, a northern suburb of New York City, suffers from years of Black political misleadership and is now under threat by real estate developers who envision the…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The Struggle for a Somali Nation
04 Jun 2025
Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation.
Alina Selyukh
Skulls Once Subject to Racist Study in Germany are Laid to Rest in New Orleans
04 Jun 2025
Looted African skulls come home after a century in German labs, exposing colonialism's history of dehumanizing "race science."
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: A Black Man’s Protest, Lamine Senghor, 1927
14 May 2025
“It is a lie that slavery has been abolished. It has only been modernized.”
Jon Jeter
Fleeing Imaginary Persecution at Home, South African ‘Refugees’ May Find the Grass is Not Greener in America
14 May 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming "persecution"—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still…
Moussa Ibrahim
How Western Churches Hijacked African Christianity—and How It's Fighting Back
14 May 2025
The future of the Christian church on the continent depends on the ability to develop an authentic African Christianity, moving away from its westernized forms.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
U.S. and Israel Gangsterism Has Created a Hobbesian International State of Nature
23 Apr 2025
Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism.
Mildred Trouilot Aristide
Haiti And The Global Movement For Reparations
16 Apr 2025
Haiti Action Committee is honored to share the keynote address given by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide at the April 8th, 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Truth, Solidarity and…