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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Necessity of Birthright Citizenship for Black People
02 Jul 2025
Black citizenship was non-existent for the first 200 years that enslaved and free people were present in what became the United States. Even long-standing legal victories are tenuous, and now birthright citizenship is at risk.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Aggressors Unnamed in Rwanda-DRC “Peace Agreement”
02 Jul 2025
Rwandan and M23 forces are the aggressors in the DRC. They are integrated under Rwandan command.
Inae Oh
What $100 Billion in New ICE Funding Would Look Like
09 Jul 2025
The staggering increase is ICE enforcement is difficult to process. These numbers will help.
Said Bouamama Blog
Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 1)
09 Jul 2025
As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanon’s century-old warnings are critical today—capitalism’s genocidal expansion demands revolution.
Abayomi Azikiwe
Kenyan Police Attack Youth-led Demonstrations Against Brutality
09 Jul 2025
At least 16 were killed in protests marking the first anniversary of mass actions against neo-liberal tax hikes and continuing state repression.
Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration
Historic Genocide Case Heard in Barbados Supreme Court: Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration Demands Accountability Over Gaza Atrocities
09 Jul 2025
Barbados’ Supreme Court is now at the center of a historic genocide case against Israel, as Caribbean activists demand their government sever ties with the apartheid state.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Mali Collins’ Book, “Scrap Theory”
09 Jul 2025
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Mali Collins. Collins is Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at American University. Her book is Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Black…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: Even During Disaster, The Pittsburgh Courier, 1927
09 Jul 2025
“Neither disaster, catastrophe, nor calamity can take precedence … over the color-caste system.”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Collaborators Like Al Sharpton Can’t Assist Zohran Mamdani with Circumventing Pigmentation Politics and the Black Misleadership Class…But Principled Black Radical Organizing Can
09 Jul 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s victory rattled NYC’s political elite. But to win Black voters and defeat the Democrat machine, he must reject Al Sharpton’s co-optation and align with radical Black organizers.
Jon Jeter
From Cadillac-Driving Welfare Queens to Xbox-Playing Slackers, the Oligarchs Vilify Others for Their Own Larceny
09 Jul 2025
America’s ruling class keeps inventing new boogeymen to disguise its endless war on workers, while wealth flows upward and capitalism’s collapse accelerates.