The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Donald Trump’s efforts to normalize relations with Russia, and to end the fighting in the Ukraine proxy war are logical and sensible. But years of whipped up anti-Russia hatred make logical solutions difficult to achieve, with democrats trying to fight his change of course. While Russia is a hot button issue, there is silence and bipartisan consensus about continuing Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

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

Mary McLeod Bethune’s testament to a good, ethical life.

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the Genocide against the people of DR Congo to be commemorated on August 2nd, the anniversary of Rwanda and Uganda’s 1998 invasion of Congo. Ann Garrison spoke to CAYP’s Gaëtan-Dauphin Nzowo.

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Constructive Engagement 2.0— or Freddo frontin’ for heil-tech Hitler?” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Jon Jeter

Maryland has been enforcing harsher criminal laws, using the claim of a crime wave that does not exist. This crackdown funnels Black children into an incredibly draconian legal system. Now, there is a push to intervene and pass new legislation intended to reduce the number of offenses that will automatically charge children as adults.

Hanna Eid

The rise of the data and technology industry plays a key role in the rapid deterioration of social and economic conditions in the U.S.

Gavin O’Reilly

The contrast between the reception of Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu upon their visits to the White House was stark. This treatment seems to signal a shift in the Trump administration’s international priorities and policy.

Black Alliance For Peace

It comes as no surprise that elements among the left continue to do the bidding of Western imperialist forces. The recent statement from the Ukrainian Solidarity Network exemplifies the left’s complete abandonment of a principled material analysis.