Related Stories
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
BOOM goes tuna and swordfish stuffed brown burlap bags aboardboats blown to smithereens. Presto! Fishing is now narco-trafficking.
Imani Nile
Empire taught us what to believe about the Global South.
Logan McMillen
The Trump administration has already cut off Cuba’s access to oil.
Luciano Vasapollo
Cuba's leadership has chosen resistance over subordination as the blockade tightens, but Venezuela's sovereignty is being stripped away.
Black Alliance For Peace
From the blockade of Cuba to the kidnapping of Venezuela's president, U.S.
Luis Britto GarcĂa
Venezuela is not Iran or Cuba, but those nations teach us that sovereignty is not given but is obtained through resistance.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Memories of a sovereign Venezuela collide with the reality that it is now a U.S. vassal state.
Sharon Kyle
Baba Akili and Thandiwe Abdullah returned from Havana with an eyewitness account of empty streets, failing hospitals and a people enduring the
Sara Flounders
The House Ways and Means subpoenas against peace and justice organizations, paired with the State Department's designation of Cuba as the cente
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“In other words, people revolted against the system. But they did not know that the system was called capitalism.”
More Stories
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence"Eating elephant excrement’s a problem—solidarity’s a solution …" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
- Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR Contributor , Ari GutmanGovernment agencies in the state of Maryland are allowing real estate developers to disturb a sacred place of rest for enslaved people and their descendants. Organizers have continued to oppose the…
- Jon JeterThe Democratic Party pulls out all the stops to maintain its base of Black voters - except push any policy that will improve their material conditions. Now that Kamala Harris has stepped into the…
- David HundeyinThe state has put targets on the backs of left-wing independent media outlets it identifies as subversive. African Stream has been accused of being a Russian puppet in an age-old pattern of…
- Kim IvesThe U.S. plans to continue with this mission, despite Haitian and world opposition.