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.
​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
A People(s)-Centered Human Rights framework rejects the liberal abstraction that makes a false symmetry between Iranian authoritarianism and U.
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.
Black Alliance For Peace
The recent report by the U.S.
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
More Stories
- Editors, The Black Agenda Review“The story of European identity is often told as if it had no exterior.”
- Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing EditorFarmaajo, a hugely popular Somali politician who has never been favored by the US, is widely expected to seek the presidency in Somalia’s 2026 election.
- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence"Day 40-something pedophile-protecting government shutdown" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
- Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright , ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistDespite being held in Brazil, a nation with the largest Black population outside of the African continent, COP30 has continued a thirty-year pattern of sidelining the specific climate threats to Afro…
- Jon JeterDecades of unmet promises and endemic corruption have eroded the ANC's legitimacy, creating a surge of support for a party led by South Africa's white minority.