Wednesday, 7 May 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Ryan Coogler, Shedeur Saanders, Karmelo Anthony, and Rodney Hinton, Jr
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Black people among the rich and famous garner praise and love, and so do those amongst us in distress. Concerns for the masses of people and their struggles are often missing.
LETTER: Thank you, Mr. Howe, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1967
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Ama Ata Aidoo’s lands a knock-out blow to white neocolonial anti-African revisionism.
The Only Language the White Settler Speaks: Ohio Police Say Grieving Black Father Avenges Son’s Slaying By Killing One of Theirs
Jon Jeter
The killing of Timothy Thomas in 2001 ignited Cincinnati’s long-simmering tensions over police violence. This struggle continues today, forcing a painful question: When justice is denied, does violence become the only language of resistance?
DOGE— Department Of Grifter Enrichment
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“DOGE— Department Of Grifter Enrichment” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
BAR Book Forum: Brittany Friedman’s Book, “Carceral Apartheid”
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Brittany Friedman. Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book is Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons.
Black Politics and Mutual Comradeship: A Manifesto
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
From Gaza to Sudan to the streets of America, the oppressors of our time demand mass resistance. Not just protest, but an organized, unrelenting struggle. Black radical politics remind us that only collective power can dismantle the machinery of genocide, ecocide, and state violence.
Now is the Time for All Anti-Imperialists and All Justice Loving People to Stand Unequivocally in Defense of Burkina Faso
Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team
The Black Alliance for Peace demands an end to U.S. and Western interference in Burkina Faso, the rejection of neocolonial policies in the Sahel, and a stance affirming Africans’ rights to sovereignty.
South Side Neighbors Want Housing Protections Before City OKs ‘Luxury’ Hotel Near Obama Center
Maxwell Evans
Community residents say that Chicago’s City Council should pass a slate of housing protections centered on low-income renters instead of advancing plans for a hotel near the Obama Center site.
Vietnam: A Victory Never To Be Forgotten
Allen Myers
Vietnam’s defeat of U.S. forces stands as a landmark anti-colonial victory, proving that determined resistance can overcome even the world’s most powerful military—yet its legacy remains fiercely contested.
The New Dark Age 
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