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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: The Great Moving Right Show, Stuart Hall, 1979
22 Jan 2025
The late Stuart Hall cautions us to be wary of turning to historical precedent without understanding the specific conjunctures of power that characterize the rise of the right.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned
22 Jan 2025
Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters.
Travis Ross
How Aristide’s Lavalas Family Party Has Lurched to the Right
22 Jan 2025
Fanmi Lavalas has fallen far from its roots as a popular progressive movement and is now nothing more than a servant of imperialism.
Tamara Nassar
Day 1: Gaza ceasefire
22 Jan 2025
Fifteen grueling months of bombing and military assault have finally come to a pause as the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel has come into effect.
Ramzy Baroud
The Price of Impunity in Gaza: Is This Israel’s Day of Reckoning?
22 Jan 2025
The war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers have not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. After over a year of proudly displaying their dirty deeds on social media, these war criminals are now facing arrest in nations around the world. Capturing these war criminals is an important step in a…
Heba Gowayed
The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration
22 Jan 2025
Though party leadership called it inhumane, 48 democratic members of Congress voted for the bill to deport immigrants accused, not convicted, of petty theft.
Alexander Rubinstein
Black Money, Black Flags: How USAID Paved the Way for Syria’s Militant Takeover
22 Jan 2025
The United States leverages soft power through NGOs such as USAID. In Syria, USAID operated as a channel to help maintain relations with terrorist groups and facilitate regime change through the overthrow of Bashar Al Assad.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Death of DEI
29 Jan 2025
Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that “diversity” can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: Note to All Nazis, Fascists and Klansmen, Langston Hughes, 1943
29 Jan 2025
Langston Hughes’s 1943 poem against fascism is precise, droll, and eternal.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Why Hasn’t the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC?
29 Jan 2025
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court (ICC), despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).