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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Western Nations Join the United States in Repressing Dissent
16 Apr 2025
Trump is not unique in the collective west. As the crisis of capitalism deepens, "democratic" states intensify repression and criminalize dissent.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Racism and the American University, Addison Gayle, Jr., 1971
16 Apr 2025
The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cory Booker, Confused Liberals, Obama's Reappearance, and the Dangers of a Fake Movement
09 Apr 2025
Any “movement” that leads protest back to the Democratic Party is, by definition, dangerous. Criticism of Donald Trump cannot be a defining feature of change.
Jon Jeter
In Complying With Trump’s Demands to Crack Down on Free Speech, Columbia Confesses That Money, Not Education, Is Its Goal
26 Mar 2025
Columbia University quickly rolled over for the Trump administration’s demands to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, pulling back the thin veil of liberal academic freedom.
Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor
Malcolm X, Black Nationalism and the Cold War
19 Feb 2025
United States intelligence agencies kept close watch over developments in the African American struggle for freedom, justice, equality and self-determination after the conclusion of the Second…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod
08 Jan 2025
"F Train Lynching: Papa Cop’s wink and nod" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Alliance For Peace
The Biden Administration Fails to Win Imprisonment of the Uhuru 3
18 Dec 2024
The U.S. sought to once again target Black radical forces, by charging violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act. The Uhuru 3 were acquitted of those charges but convicted under the…
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Zionist Effort to Defund Climate and Environmental Justice
27 Nov 2024
Nonprofit organizations of all orientations are under attack, with threats of withholding funding, for their association with Palestine solidarity activities. Climate justice organizations have not…
Black Alliance For Peace
No Matter Who Sits in the White Peoples’ House, the War Being Waged by the U.S. Colonial/Capitalist Class Against the Black Colonized Working Class and All Oppressed Peoples and Nations Will Continue
20 Nov 2024
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...”
Noah Hurowitz
Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
13 Nov 2024
The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism.