Wednesday, 14 May 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Corruption, Lies, Biden’s Health and Trump’s Victory
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The same corporate media talking heads who told us to ignore Biden’s failing health are now cashing in with books revealing political cover ups while also covering up their own role in facilitating corruption and inevitably a defeat.
SPEECH: A Black Man’s Protest, Lamine Senghor, 1927
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“It is a lie that slavery has been abolished. It has only been modernized.”
Southern Panther Malik Rahim
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
In “A Southern Panther,” movement elder Malik Rahim talks about his lifetime of battling racism and fighting for peace and environmental justice.
Fleeing Imaginary Persecution at Home, South African ‘Refugees’ May Find the Grass is Not Greener in America
Jon Jeter
The Trump administration’s decision to fast-track asylum for white South Africans—claiming “persecution”—is a political stunt, ignoring that they remain among the wealthiest globally, still controlling most of the country’s land and resources decades after apartheid allegedly ended.
How the GOP is Saving the Fossil Fuel Industry From Trump…With Help From the Democrats
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
Despite Trump’s tariffs battering the fossil fuel industry, bipartisan policies, including Democrat-backed subsidies, are rescuing Big Oil, locking in climate destruction while working-class communities pay the price.
The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for Resistance Against the Accelerating Imperialist War on Black/African Peoples in Our Americas
Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
Accelerating crises of imperialism in Haiti, Ecuador, and beyond highlight the urgent need for regional Pan Africanist, anti-imperialist unity and strategy.
Saturday Mornings
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Saturday Mornings” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
How Western Churches Hijacked African Christianity—and How It’s Fighting Back
Moussa Ibrahim
The future of the Christian church on the continent depends on the ability to develop an authentic African Christianity, moving away from its westernized forms.
Black People, Palestine, and the Maintenance of Empire
Terri Frick
Black support for Palestine underscores the fight against empire, revealing how Israel’s violence in Gaza serves U.S. hegemony and white supremacy, with Palestinian freedom as a catalyst for global justice.
Whole Process People’s Democracy: The Path Forward
Hanna Eid
Growing socialist and people’s democratic projects, as in China and Bolivia, must be seen as examples of how revolutionary forces in the United States can build a system of governance.
US Abandons ‘Hamas Disarmament’ Demands in Gaza Truce Talks: Report
The Cradle News Desk
A reported rift between Trump and Netanyahu continues to widen ahead of the US president’s first visit to West Asia since regaining power.
False Promises, False Hopes: The Africa-CARICOM Summit
Tennyson S.D. Joseph
A forward-looking critique of African and Caribbean collaborations embodied in the Africa-Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Summit.
DRC- Rwanda Agreement Could Prove Disastrous for African Great Lakes
Abayomi Azikiwe
The United States’ role in Central Africa has resulted in regional war and mass casualties.
The New Dark Age 
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