The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests, like all of his white house predecessors.

​​​​​​​Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Despite selling out Haiti, former Haitian leftist Gerard Pierre-Charles’s 1983 diagnosis of the imperialist assault on current movements still resonates today.

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor, Riva Enteen

Both class and color barriers were broken down during the Michael Manley era, but class barriers re-emerged.

Clau O’Brien Moscoso

Over a month after the killings of four young boys in Ecuador, now known as the Guayaquil Four, the community is still reeling but is also activated. This case has sparked a movement that is raising awareness and organizing against the oppression of Africans in that country.

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor

In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured authors are Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis. Rosenthal is a writer and co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union. Vilchis has been organizing tenants in Boyle Heights for more than thirty years and is co-founder of the L.A. Tenants Union. Their book is Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis. We interviewed Tracy Rosenthal about their book.

JP Sloan

for Aiyana, for Tommie, for Jordan.

Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka was a guest on the SOBH program on Press TV. He discussed his history of political organizing and activism, human rights, and the importance of the Black Radical Peace Tradition.

Business Ghana

In excerpts from a speech given in Accra, Ghana, BAR editor and contributor Dr. Jemima Pierre highlights the United Nations’ involvement in the 2004 coup d’état and the subsequent occupation of Haiti. In discussing the deployment of Kenyan troops as a U.S. proxy force during the invasion and occupation, she raises important questions about neocolonialism and imperialism, as well as African self-determination and Black sovereignty. She began the discussion by addressing the calculated destabilization of Haiti and its sovereignty by the U.S. and its Western allies, along with broader global participation that has provoked ongoing issues for Haiti. She argues that post-colonial states, especially those in Africa, have much to learn from Haiti’s experiences with Western imperialism.

Pan-African Community Action PACA

Washington, D.C., is implementing a new bill intended to crack down on fare evasion. This bill, like many others of its kind, will serve as a tool deployed in the ongoing war against the Black working class by increasing policing and punishing those who cannot bear the hardship of the exorbitant cost of D.C. public transportation.

Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network

Mozambique is experiencing a period of unrest provoked by recent elections. After unending suffering under neoliberal austerity measures and the encroachment of AFRICOM, the Mozambican people have taken to the streets. The Black Alliance for Peace’s US Out of Africa Network (USOAN) spoke to Ebubechukwu Nwafor about the situation.

Black Alliance for Peace

The fires that have been raging in southern California for days are destroying the cities and homes of tens of thousands of people. This disaster, driven by the worsening climate crisis, is emblematic of the deterioration of society caused by capitalism and colonization.

Pavan Kulkarni

The war-torn country has accused the US-based global tech giant of war crimes, forgery and deception by using illegally extracted and smuggled minerals in its products.

Janvieve Williams Comrie, Chevy Solís Acevedo

Before beginning his term in office, president-elect Donald Trump already proclaimed his intention to seize the Panama Canal. Understanding the importance of the canal and the history of labor, race and national sovereignty in Panama is critical to properly contextualize the gravity of this declaration.

Pavan Kulkarni

After dozens died in stampedes, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu remarked, “We should just get on with it.” Tinubu’s IMF-prescribed policies have more than doubled food prices in the country, condemning millions more to hunger.