The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves.

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

Steve Biko long ago diagnosed the pathological cruelty and rot of white society.

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Somaliland is pinning its hopes of recognition as an independent state on Donald Trump, and Trump has suggested that the breakaway state accept Palestinians exiled from Gaza.

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Erehwon (Shangri La Utopia)” is the latest from BAR’s poet-in-Residence.

Jon Jeter

A torrent of false and racist claims culminated in a presidential executive order suspending any aid to South Africa. Donald Trump is attempting to stand in the way of its land reform process.

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

Donald Trump began his presidency with an onslaught of executive actions meant to dismantle all governmental institutions and agencies that offer any lifeline for Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor white communities. His actions highlight the Democratic Party’s refusal to operate as a true opposition party.

Iker Suarez

The United States is a colonial empire, repressing and exploiting colonized peoples domestically and internationally. Mass deportations are a function of ethnic cleansing and a continuation of U.S. settler colonial history.

Black Alliance For Peace

Donald Trump’s recent statements claiming U.S. ownership of Gaza are the latest iteration of U.S. bipartisan imperialist policy.

Jake Johnston

The Trump administration is dismantling USAID, intending to absorb its mission into the State Department. USAID’s engagement with Haiti demonstrates the insidious nature of the agency and how its resources are deployed to maintain U.S. interests.

Judi Rever

Rwanda’s brutal assault on Goma has unleashed more agony for the Congolese, who are already traumatized by three decades of war.

Ramzy Baroud

Donald Trump recently made several statements declaring his intent to commit a full-scale ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s Gaza Strip. However, this idea, like many others, may be unfeasible and without the support needed to be enacted.