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Pedro Stropasolas
Mali Takes Control of One of Africa’s Largest Gold Mines and Launches Its Own Refinery
02 Jul 2025
Mali’s mining code change in 2024 puts pressure on foreign companies in the country.
Black Alliance For Peace
FIFA and IOC Must Ban the United States and Israel from Hosting or Participating in International Sporting Events
02 Jul 2025
With an anticipated tens of thousands of international travelers for the World Cup and the Olympic Games, U.S. immigration policy has made it a dangerous place to visit. Both the U.S. and Israel continue to operate as rogue states with flagrant disregard for international law - attacking sovereign…
Adam Mahoney
From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years
02 Jul 2025
America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Terrible Origins of July 4th
02 Jul 2025
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end slavery. The "patriots" motives were anything but noble.
Essam Elkorghli , Matteo Capasso
Fabricating Enemies in Times of Decline: NATO 2025 Summit
02 Jul 2025
The 2025 NATO summit exposed a dying empire escalating wars and austerity to hide its collapse while backing genocide in Gaza and illegal attacks worldwide.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Did New Yorkers say, No Mo Cuomo; No Mo Turkey Trot with Papa Cop?
02 Jul 2025
"Did New Yorkers say, No Mo Cuomo; No Mo Turkey Trot with Papa Cop?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Hanna Eid
Mariategui and American Labor
02 Jul 2025
Capitalism’s accelerating crises demand a pan-American labor revolt against Trump’s plundering, bipartisan imperialism, and the neoliberal NAFTA. José Carlos Mariátegui’s century-old warnings are ones we must heed and build working-class internationalism to replace a dying empire with true…
Maurice Carney
Donald Trump’s Congo Venture: A Scramble for Minerals Under the Guise of Peace
02 Jul 2025
Trump’s ‘peace deal’ between Rwanda and the DRC is a corporate resource grab disguised as diplomacy, rewarding Rwandan war crimes while U.S. investors stake claims to Congo’s coltan mines.
Jon Jeter
Mamdani’s Train is Running But Blacks Wonder if There is Space for Them
02 Jul 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s democratic socialist vision won NYC’s primary but lost Black voters to scandal-plagued Cuomo by 20 points, exposing the left’s racial blind spot even as Wall Street prepares to spend millions against him.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Black Refugees Unwelcomed! Gaou Guinou Balewa, 1973
02 Jul 2025
“Haitian refugees and political exiles find themselves being refused the hospitality granted others.”