The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Trump is not unique in the collective west. As the crisis of capitalism deepens, “democratic” states intensify repression and criminalize dissent.

ESSAY: Racism and the American University, Addison Gayle, Jr., 1971

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

The appraisal of American universities as liberal institutions remains one of the purest examples of the elasticity of the English language.

NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.

The Dog Whistle Heard ‘Round the World: How Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City Bombing Birthed the Trump Era

Jon Jeter

Thirty years after Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing, his legacy lives on in the racist mass shooters, anti-government extremists, and MAGA reactionaries who continue to target Black communities, immigrants, and marginalized groups. McVeigh’s blueprint of white nationalist violence has spread far and wide, fueled by the same toxic mix of racial paranoia, anti-left conspiracies, and far-right radicalization that birthed the Trump era.

​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist, Claudia O’Brien Moscoso, Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates the assault on Afro-Ecuadorian communities.

Too Black, Rasul Mowatt

DEI isn’t dead—it was never alive to begin with. A corporate pacification project dressed as progress, it launders Black rage into diversity statements while police budgets grow and material conditions collapse.

NBROC Coordinating Committee

The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront imperialism, capitalism, and white supremacy while building an
independent path toward collective liberation. The gathering in Indiana – 53 years after the historic National Black Political Convention – reaffirms that our freedom lies not in reforming a broken system but in dismantling it and forging a revolutionary future.

Black Alliance For Peace

Despite Ecuador’s attempts to block international observers, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and Movimiento Afrodescendiente Nacional Ecuatoriano (MANE) documented the violent realities of Daniel Noboa’s militarized election – where Afro-Ecuadorian communities faced repression, environmental racism, and state violence under the guise of a ‘War on Drugs.’ This report from BAP observers exposes the deepening crisis under Noboa’s regime and the urgent need for an independent Afro-Ecuadorian movement to resist U.S.-backed militarization and defend collective liberation.

Mildred Trouilot Aristide

Haiti Action Committee is honored to share the keynote address given by Haiti’s former First Lady Mildred Aristide at the April 8th, 2025 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: Truth, Solidarity and Repair. The conference was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. The focus of this year’s conference was “Haiti and the Global Movement for Reparations.” We urge you to share this presentation widely. Watch the video recording of the presentation.

Lexis-Olivier Ray

Roughly a third of the people who were arrested by LAPD in the city of Los Angeles for cannabis-related offenses since 2020 were arrested in Westchester. Nearly all of those arrests happened at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and 75% of those arrested are Black.

Nora Barrows-Friedman

Israel is intensifying its genocidal assault on Gaza—starving civilians, bombing hospitals, and burning journalists alive. Yet amid the devastation, Palestinians persist in acts of defiant resistance.

Oscar León

President Daniel Noboa is accused of stealing Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations – including his family business – at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.