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  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Solidarity Against ICE and the Entire State Apparatus
    11 Jun 2025
    Popular resistance against the Trump administration in Los Angeles and other cities is a very positive development and one that Black people must embrace.
  • Jon Jeter
    Making a Mountain out of a Mole Hill, Trump Sends Troops to Los Angeles, Hoping to Energize His MAGA Base
    11 Jun 2025
    Trump deploys Marines against LA protesters, echoing Nixon’s Kent State crackdown. But this time, he faces a broader, greatly disaffected opposition ready to fight back.
  • Aiyana Porter-Cash
    False Promises of Protection Embedded in U.S. Militarism and Carcerality
    11 Jun 2025
    "Protection" is a lie—a pretext for state violence, militarism, and control, targeting the marginalized while masking harm as care. True safety comes not from oppressive systems, but from resistance…
  • Struggle La Lucha
    ICE Raids Escalate in LA As Community Fights Back
    11 Jun 2025
    While ICE and law enforcement unleash raids across LA, protesters stand firm, exposing the brutal machinery of deportation and the state’s violent response to dissent and resistance.
  • Jonathan Forney
    7 Supreme Court Cases That Black Americans Should Track This Summer
    11 Jun 2025
    Issues before the high court range from health care access and citizenship to workplace discrimination and redistricting.
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Charles Rangel and the End of Black Politics
    28 May 2025
    The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
  • Jon Jeter
    Following Kamala’s Script, Maryland Governor Vetoes Reparations Bill, Angering Black Voters He Will Need in White House Bid
    28 May 2025
    By vetoing a bill to study reparations, Maryland Governor Wes Moore has aligned himself with a long line of Black Democrats who prioritize white approval over their own base.
  • Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    One Big Beautiful Bank Job!
    28 May 2025
    "One Big Beautiful Bank Job!" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
  • Chris Hedges
    Trump’s Useful Idiots
    28 May 2025
    A bankrupt liberal class signed on to the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites, refused to condemn Israel for its genocide and in the process gave weapons to its executioners.
  • Justin Fenton , Ben Conarck , Pamela Wood
    Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled a Homicide, Audit Finds
    28 May 2025
    Independent audit finds patterns of racial, pro-police bias in Maryland’s chief medical examiner’s office.
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