| Black Agenda Report

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.
Alan MacLeod
Betar: the Far-Right Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics
09 Apr 2025
Betar U.S., a far-right Zionist organization with ties to violent extremism, is quietly shaping Trump administration policy, compiling lists of pro-Palestine activists for deportation while openly…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Armed Struggle: Natural Response to Fascism, Martin Sostre, 1975
02 Apr 2025
“The question now is: What are we going to do about this murderous fascism?”
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Chasing Chuck Tumor's testicular cancer—or building Resistance to Stage 4 Capitalism?
26 Mar 2025
"Chase Chuck Tumor's testicular cancer—or build Resistance to Stage 4 Capitalism?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Is this ‘Constructive Engagement' 2.0— Or, Freddo frontin’ for Heil tech Hitler?
05 Mar 2025
"Constructive Engagement 2.0— or Freddo frontin’ for heil-tech Hitler?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
LETTER: An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Y. Davis, James Baldwin, 1970
26 Feb 2025
James Baldwin on white madness–and Black resistance.
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POEM: Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen, Langston Hughes, 1943
29 Jan 2025
Langston Hughes’s 1943 poem against fascism is precise, droll, and eternal.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Great Moving Right Show, Stuart Hall, 1979
22 Jan 2025
The late Stuart Hall cautions us to be wary of turning to historical precedent without understanding the specific conjunctures of power that characterize the rise of the right.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Prospects for Fascism, Manning Marable, 1981
27 Nov 2024
Manning Marable reminds us that US fascism is institutional and normalized. The parallels of his 1981 essay with the present are obvious – US fascism remains ascendant.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Liberal Arrogance and Hatred on Display After Trump Victory
13 Nov 2024
While Donald Trump is frequently called a fascist and is even compared to Adolph Hitler, some angry democrats are engaging in their own racist and eliminationist rhetoric in the wake of his impending…