The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Eric Adams has a multitude of legal and political problems that have ended any political ambitions he may have had. Donald Trump may have kept him from going to jail, but in seeking a lifeline from a president hated by most New Yorkers, he has sealed his fate and will go down in history as the anti-Black, Black mayor.

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and Columnist

Every year, people around the world honors Malcolm X. Though he was taken from us prematurely, his memory and impact remain. With that memory, there is a mandate that we accept and carry on the legacy of his politics and the others who are the heart of the Black Radical Tradition.

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Pat Parker warns us that cowardly acquiescence to fascism is deadly for us all.

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

As Rwandan troops tightened their grip on the capitals of DRC’s Kivu Provinces, activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close collaboration with the Rwandan regime.

Erica Caines, Clau O’Brien Moscoso

The deal for a prisoner exchange proposed by the El Salvadoran president presents a dangerous threat to incarcerated people in the U.S. The continued outsourcing of the U.S. penal system signals the empire’s growing carceral activities and its attempt to remain a dominant force in the region.

Jon Jeter

The economic stress on African American people shows itself in phenomena like marriage rates. What once was a benefit to Black communities and a path to the middle class, marriage is becoming harder to sustain with low wages and few options for employment.

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“STICKUP: MORE for the GREEDY; less for the needy!!” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Nato Koury

The threats by the Trump administration to detain migrants in Guantanamo Bay will not be the first time the United States has used the facility for migrant detention. Not too long ago, Haitian migrants were held in Guantanamo Bay and forced to live in inhumane conditions.

Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report Contributor

United States intelligence agencies kept close watch over developments in the African American struggle for freedom, justice, equality and self-determination after the conclusion of the Second Imperialist War.

Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team

Western nations are fueling the atrocities Rwanda is inflicting on the Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite the unrelenting aggression, the Congolese people are resisting. International solidarity from all progressive forces and people of conscience is needed to demand an end to this crisis and reveal its true nature.

Dr.Wilmer J. Leon, III

“When people show you who they are, believe them” remains true when we examine the sorry state of the U.S. political arena. Both major political parties have made clear their priorities – and they are opposed to the priorities of the people.