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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Fall of 2020: How Liberals Ceded Solidarity and Engineered Social Justice Solitude
28 May 2025
The 2020 uprisings could have sparked a multiracial working-class movement against systemic oppression, but liberal elites defanged its radical potential. By reducing Black liberation to performative…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
HANDS OFF NATO? Not Palestine? Who got the memo?
09 Apr 2025
The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Martinique's History of Resistance
25 Oct 2024
Roddy Rod is an anti-Kepone activist, pan-African, anti-imperialism resident of Martinique. He is also a resident of the African nation the Ivory Coast. He joins us to discuss recent protests in…
Joel Mukisa
The problem is systemic: understanding the #OccupyParliament movement in Kenya
09 Oct 2024
Reflecting on the mass protests that recently shook Kenyan society from top to bottom, Joel Mukisa argues that we must go much further than a choiceless democracy to find answers. A systematic…
Salvador Ousmane
Nigerian government unleashes massive repression after #endhunger protests
25 Sep 2024
At the beginning of August this year, tens of thousands of Nigerians rose up to denounce the government in a movement that was organised under the slogans #endbadgovernance and #endhunger. For too…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Love My Black Job
11 Sep 2024
"Love My Black Job" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Protests for Palestine at the DNC
28 Aug 2024
DNC protest organizers kept Democrats’ responsibility for the Gaza genocide in the news from October to August.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Chicago Authorities Want a “Conversation” with the Poor People’s Army about the DNC 2024
24 Jul 2024
The Poor People’s Army has a permit to march to the steps of the Democratic National Convention in August, but now Chicago authorities want to have a “conversation” with them.
Black Alliance For Peace
Responsibility for the Kenya Crisis Lies At the Feet of US Neo-Colonialism
10 Jul 2024
The current uprising in Kenya is a result of the imperialist economic policy enabled and maintained by its comprador leader, William Ruto.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Israel's Rescue Massacres Civilians and Censors Media
12 Jun 2024
Israel is crowing about rescuing four people held hostage and killing more than 200 Palestinians in the process. It is typical behavior for the apartheid state but all of the pressure it exerts can’t…