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Terri Frick
Black People, Palestine, and the Maintenance of Empire
14 May 2025
Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global justice.
Moussa Ibrahim
How Western Churches Hijacked African Christianity—and How It's Fighting Back
14 May 2025
The future of the Christian church on the continent depends on the ability to develop an authentic African Christianity, moving away from its westernized forms.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Saturday Mornings
14 May 2025
"Saturday Mornings" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas
14 May 2025
Accelerating crises of imperialism in Haiti, Ecuador, and beyond highlight the urgent need for regional Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist unity and strategy.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
How the GOP is Saving the Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump…With Help From the Democrats
14 May 2025
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class communities pay the price.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Corruption, Lies, Biden's Health and Trump's Victory
14 May 2025
The same corporate media talking heads who told us to ignore Biden’s failing health are now cashing in with books revealing political cover ups while also covering up their own role in facilitating corruption and inevitably a defeat.
Jon Jeter
Fleeing Imaginary Persecution at Home, South African ‘Refugees’ May Find the Grass is Not Greener in America
14 May 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming "persecution"—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resource decades after apartheid allegedly ended.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
SPEECH: A Black Man’s Protest, Lamine Senghor, 1927
14 May 2025
“It is a lie that slavery has been abolished. It has only been modernized.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Southern Panther Malik Rahim
14 May 2025
In “A Southern Panther,” movement elder Malik Rahim talks about his lifetime of battling racism and fighting for peace and environmental justice.
Natalia Marques
New Jersey Fights Mass Deportations at the Newly-Minted Delaney Hall Detention Center
21 May 2025
The Trump administration opens a new ICE detention center in New Jersey’s biggest city and a hub for immigrant communities, earning a bold response from immigrant rights organizers.