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Israel Kills Five Journalists, Over 100 Civilians in One Night as ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ Begins in Gaza
21 May 2025
The Israeli army has intensified attacks on hospitals as part of the new operation, which aims to displace the entire population of Gaza.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Malcolm X and Human Rights in the Time of Trumpism: Transcending the Masters Tools
21 May 2025
Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed”…
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
A few lines for the Poet Ojenke...
21 May 2025
"A few lines for the Poet Ojenke..." is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Djibo Sobukwe
Malcolm X: Foundational Black Internationalism and the Anti-Imperialism of the Black Alliance for Peace
21 May 2025
Malcolm X didn’t just fight for Black liberation—he waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than ever, exposing the ‘house Negroes’ who betray our struggle for a decolonized future.
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Temerity, Tartuffery, and Toxic Identity Reductionism…the Latest Democrat Party Hoggwash
21 May 2025
The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about power than progress.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Biden's Fate and Israel's Sadistic Revenge
21 May 2025
Israel is starving Gazans to death and continuing its bombing attacks on civilians. Israel also specializes in personal revenge, targeting men, women, and children who might be the subject of international press attention and remind the world of that state's sadistic nature. There are many…
Jon Jeter
In DC, A New ‘Mayor 1 Percent” This Time in Blackface
21 May 2025
Muriel Bowser is proving that Black faces in high places don’t break systems, they grease them. While slashing wages for tipped workers and handing billionaires stadium deals, D.C.’s mayor is the engine of gentrification in D.C.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré
21 May 2025
A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Towards Lasting Peace, Shirley Graham DuBois, 1970
21 May 2025
Shirley Graham Du Bois on the liberation of Palestine.
Justin Fenton , Ben Conarck , Pamela Wood
Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled a Homicide, Audit Finds
28 May 2025
Independent audit finds patterns of racial, pro-police bias in Maryland’s chief medical examiner’s office.