The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The indictment of New York City mayor Eric Adams is the latest example of moribund Black politics. Rich donors and corporate media decide who will be elected to office, while the people’s needs go unaddressed.

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist, Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka discuss the US upcoming presidential election and the historic events unfolding in Western Asia – where Israel continues its onslaught of the region with an invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and a limited response from Iran.

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“We need to give greater theoretical centrality to the fact that European conquest of the world has established what is in effect: global white supremacy.”

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Social media bans on African Stream should remind us that corporations will never facilitate anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist narratives and stir us to look for alternatives.

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor

After nearly six decades, the right to self-determination and independence is still being denied to the Indigenous people as the United States prepares for expanding imperialist wars in Asia and Africa.

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Plutocratic pendulum swings …” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is George Lipsitz. Lipsitz is Research Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His book is The Danger Zone Is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth.

Jon Jeter

One of the many unfortunate common threads between Palestinians, South Africans, and African Americans is the betrayal of the people by their political leadership who were meant to lead them into a better future. Instead, they were abandoned while those leaders became puppets of imperialist powers.

Black Alliance For Peace

Black Alliance for Peace will never abandon the Rights of Palestinian People to Resist Zionist Colonialism “By Any Means Necessary”

Orisanmi Burton

Orisanmi Birton’s groundbreaking book, Tip of the Spear, has been listed as contraband in prisons across the country, not only preventing incarcerated people from accessing the book but punishing them if it is found in their possession. These institutions consider Burton’s book to be too subversive to allow behind the walls for fear of the increased political awakening of the incarcerated population. This reveals the truth of the illegitimacy and tenuousness of the carceral system.

Kit Klarenburg

Billionaire oligarch Gilbert Bigio, is well know as one of the forces of influence that allow for shipments of arms to enter the country, provide cover for the western-backed gangs, and maintains the instability of the government. He also is an example of how deep the clutches of Zionism go.

Max Ajl Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region has received much critical acclaim since its publication with Pluto Press in October 2023. Here, while acknowledging the usefulness of such a volume in the current climate and highlighting several must-read chapters, Max Ajl sees a missed opportunity in how the book is framed by its co-editors, Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell. Missing a broader anti-imperialist politics, among other issues, Ajl argues that the edited collection loses its political edge and is unable to help address the problems it identifies.

Open letter to President Abinader: We call for compliance with the Constitution and an end to denationalization and racial discrimination

Recognized Movement

September marked eleven years since the Dominican Republic passed the law that revoked the citizenship of millions of Haitians and Dominican people with Haitian heritage. The government still maintains that the law is above board and adheres to the nation’s Constitution. However, it has used this law to enforce mass detainments and deportations.

The problem is systemic: understanding the #OccupyParliament movement in Kenya

Joel Mukisa

Reflecting on the mass protests that recently shook Kenyan society from top to bottom, Joel Mukisa argues that we must go much further than a choiceless democracy to find answers. A systematic questioning of the underlining political and economic structures underpinning the choices offered must be undertaken.