Jordan Neely was a Black man who died after being held in a chokehold by Daniel Penny, a white vigilante, on the New York City subway in 2023. Penny was acquitted by a jury, but the Peoples Senate, which is the next phase of the Spirit of Mandela Coalition, is hosting a community forum at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn on Saturday, February 1st. This is the first in a series of workshops organized by the Medgar Evers College Coalition. We are joined by Tag, who is on the coordinating committee of Spirit of Mandela.
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, discusses observing the recent elections in Venezuela and why the U.S. still seeks to undermine that democracy.
Rwanda weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), just as Israel weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
The visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States highlights the role of imperialism in the genocide in Gaza.
If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives.
"Psy-Op Satan’s Speech on Capitalist Hill" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
