April 23, 2025
Trump is rightly condemned as a cruel and criminal president, but he’s just the latest iteration in a long line of warmongering U.S. leaders.
April 23, 2025
Western and Human Rights has always been an Oxymoron
April 23, 2025
“Jesus was a revolutionary black leader, a Zealot, seeking to lead a Black Nation to freedom.”
April 23, 2025
Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State (FMS) has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with implications for Israel, Palestine, and Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”).
April 23, 2025
This week’s featured author is Erik S. McDuffie, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His book is The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom.
Donald Trump is thought of as a terrible president who doesn’t care about humanity. While that assertion is true, he had lots of help from his like-…
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…
“Jesus was a revolutionary black leader, a Zealot, seeking to lead a Black Nation to freedom.”
Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State (FMS) has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with…
This week’s featured author is Erik S. McDuffie. McDuffie is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of…
"Poem For The Great Dr. Freeman (My ’19 Lemlich Nominee)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Corporate media peddle the myth of a pre-Trump economic golden age, but for working-class Americans, especially Black families, the struggle began…
Lenin called out Kautsky’s fake socialism more than a century ago—today, Bernie and AOC are playing the same game, trading radical change for liberal…
African Command's (AFRICOM) heavy-handed tactics in Africa have backfired, exposing U.S. arrogance and fueling a wave of resistance. As Sahel nations…
OMNIBUS
Tens of thousands filled the streets this weekend—marching, chanting, fists raised in defiance. It looked like a movement powerful enough to shake the earth. But beneath the banners and speeches, there was a silence that echoed louder than the crowd: Gaza wasn’t mentioned. Not once. Human rights defender Ajamu Baraka joined Wilmer Leon to ask the questions too many leaders were afraid to: Why was Gaza left out? What does the silence say? And how do we fight for real liberation—not just perform resistance?
NATO’s depleted uranium weapons leave a deadly legacy—cancer, birth defects, and environmental ruin in war-torn regions. The silent genocide…
For millions, a job is no longer enough to afford housing—yet the myth that homeless people don’t work still dominates public opinion.
The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront…
Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in…
Israel is intensifying its genocidal assault on Gaza—starving civilians, bombing hospitals, and burning journalists alive. Yet amid the devastation,…
President Daniel Noboa is accused of stealing Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and…
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The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.
NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.
Thirty years after Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing, his legacy lives on in the racist mass shooters, anti-government extremists, and MAGA reactionaries who continue to target Black…
Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates…
