Colonialism

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…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio June 6, 2025
06 Jun 2025
In this week’s segment, we hear about the repatriation of skulls taken from the bodies of Black New Orleanians 150 years ago which were then sent to Germany for study in the practice of racist…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
New Orleans Buries African American Skulls Used in Racist Research
06 Jun 2025
Nineteen Black people who died at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, in December 1871 and January 1872 were decapitated and their skulls were removed and sent to Leipzig, Germany for study…
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.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 9, 2025
09 May 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss the 80th anniversary of victory in Europe in World War II, and the disinformation that centers on the U.S.'s role and dismisses the pivotal Soviet role in that…
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.