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Black Alliance For Peace
The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the Murderous Assault on Occupied Palestine
10 Oct 2023
The Black Alliance for Peace released a statement in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians under occupation in the racist, apartheid settler state of Israel.
Imani Nile
These Politicians are Playing in Our Faces
10 Oct 2023
Joe Biden had a moment of truth when he promised the oligarchs that nothing would fundamentally change if he became president. He kept his promise, and so will all those who come after him unless there is fundamental systemic change in this country.
James Patrick Jordan
Don’t Be Confused About Haiti
10 Oct 2023
The lies that are told about Haiti are so deeply ingrained that people who should know better believe that the next occupation will cure all of that country's ills. In fact, Haiti's problems are the direct result of decades of interventions.
David S. D'Amato
The FBI’s Long History of Criminalizing Dissent
10 Oct 2023
The indictment of the Uhuru 3 is part of a long history of persecution and prosecution of the Black liberation movement.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Daniel McNeil’s Book, “Thinking While Black”
10 Oct 2023
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Daniel McNeil. McNeil is a professor in the Department of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and the Queen’s National Scholar Chair in Black Studies. His book is…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: National identity and Foreign Domination, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1982
06 Dec 2023
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o reminds us that the primary contradiction in Africa is imperialism and its meek comprador bourgeoisie enforcers.
Maurice Carney
D.R. Congo’s Challenges: Elections, Rwanda’s War of Aggression and Critical Minerals for Green Transition
06 Dec 2023
The ongoing crisis is a result of converging forces determined to pursue their own interests by controlling the affairs within the Congo and subjecting the masses to inhumane conditions.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
MESSAGE: The Palestine National Liberation Movement AL-FATEH to Africa
06 Dec 2023
Al-Fateh’s communique at the 1969 Festival of Pan-African Culture offered a brilliant analysis of the overlapping histories of European colonialism and white supremacy in Africa and Palestine.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black People Won't Be Silenced About Israel
06 Dec 2023
As the US continues to conflate every criticism of Zionism with anti-semitism, the predicable happens once again. Black people are used as an avatar of anti-Jewish sentiment. This tactic will not stop Black people from supporting the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Jon Jeter
Fifty-four Years Later, Fred Hampton’s Martyrdom Looms Large Over Palestinians’ Freedom Struggle
06 Dec 2023
The thread connecting the struggles of Black and Palestinian liberation makes itself known in the propagandistic attacks on the Palestinian resistance. The assassination of Fred Hampton helps illustrate how these tactics are a replication of those used against the Panthers and other Black…