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
- Alan MacLeodChuck D was once seen as a rapper with the politics to back up his lyrics. But in recent years he has thrown his hat in the ring with the Department of State, acting as a willing agent of the U.S.…
- Ashon CrawleyListening to his speech at the Democratic National Convention, contradictions emerged.
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleyThis week, we hear from the co-authors of a new book about the growth of militarized policing facilities. Also, we revisit commentary from 2018, which explains that Washington’s support for apartheid…
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleyDahoud Andre, with KOMOKODA, joins us for a conversation about Bwa Kayiman, the ceremony that launched the Haitian revolution, and its lasting legacy.
- Black Agenda Radio with Margaret KimberleyJoy James and Kalonji Changa join us to talk about their new book, Cop Cities: Dismantling State and Corporate-Funded Armies and Prisons, which examines militarized policing illustrated by the…