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Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EDITORIAL: After the Olympics: Buying off Protest, Harry Edwards, 1969
16 Jul 2025
“Racists don’t give up easily, we learned, and the racists in sports are especially dedicated.”
Said Bouamama Blog
Settler Colonialism in light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky today... (Part 2)
16 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.
Caitlin Johnstone
AOC Is a Genocidal Con Artist
23 Jul 2025
She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.
Horace Campbell
The Fraudulent Peace Accord between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed in Washington DC, June 2025
23 Jul 2025
Campbell interrogates the recent DRC-Rwanda peace accord brokered in the US which he terms fraudulent; and poses the question: can the US and Qatar support peace in Africa amidst the militarization of the continent?
Abayomi Azikiwe
Poverty and Declining Real Wages in America: Philadelphia Municipal Strike Highlights Worsening Plight of the Working Class
23 Jul 2025
An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working people.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
STATEMENT: Without Immediate Intervention, the Last Reporters in Gaza Will Die, Agence France-Presse/Société de Journalistes, July 21, 2025
23 Jul 2025
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts…but none of us remember seeing a colleague die of hunger.”
Becca Renk
46 Years On, Nicaragua’s Youth Still Lead the Revolution
23 Jul 2025
Celebrating 46 years of revolution, Nicaragua demonstrates that it is possible to respect its heroes and also venerate its youth. Following years of cultivating leadership in its young people, the passing of the torch to a new generation of revolutionaries is not only possible, but it is already…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Not by Trump but Obama and Democrats
23 Jul 2025
The real collusion wasn’t between Trump and Putin; it was between intelligence elites and a Democratic establishment.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
The Bad Hombre Defense?
23 Jul 2025
"The Bad Hombre Defense?" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Imani Nile
The Scramble for Mount Vernon? How Capitalists and their Black Middlemen are Colonizing the Jewel of Westchester County, New York
23 Jul 2025
A majority Black city in Westchester County, a northern suburb of New York City, suffers from years of Black political misleadership and is now under threat by real estate developers who envision the replacement of the Black working class population.