The New Dark Age

Biden’s Fate and Israel’s Sadistic Revenge

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Israel is starving Gazans to death and continuing its bombing attacks on civilians. Israel also specializes in personal revenge, targeting men, women, and children who might be the subject of international press attention and remind the world of that state’s sadistic nature. There are many accomplices to these crimes, but Joe Biden’s role in giving protection to a genocide cannot be forgotten.

ESSAY: Towards Lasting Peace, Shirley Graham DuBois, 1970

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

Shirley Graham Du Bois on the liberation of Palestine.

Propaganda Watch: Kagame Is Not Traoré

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Jon Jeter

Muriel Bowser is proving that Black faces in high places don’t break systems, they grease them. While slashing wages for tipped workers and handing billionaires stadium deals, D.C.’s mayor is the engine of gentrification in D.C.

Temerity, Tartuffery, and Toxic Identity Reductionism…the Latest Democrat Party Hoggwash

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The Democratic Party would rather silence critics like Hogg than fix its own rot. Their reliance on Black Misleaders to do the dirty work exposes once again that the Democrats care more about power than progress.

Malcolm X: Foundational Black Internationalism and the Anti-Imperialism of the Black Alliance for Peace

Djibo Sobukwe

Malcolm X didn’t just fight for Black liberation—he waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than ever, exposing the ‘house Negroes’ who betray our struggle for a decolonized future.

Malcolm X and Human Rights in the Time of Trumpism: Transcending the Masters Tools

​​​​​​​Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist

Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.

A few lines for the Poet Ojenke…

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“A few lines for the Poet Ojenke…” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Israel Kills Five Journalists, Over 100 Civilians in One Night as ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ Begins in Gaza

The Cradle News Desk

The Israeli army has intensified attacks on hospitals as part of the new operation, which aims to displace the entire population of Gaza.

New Jersey Fights Mass Deportations at the Newly-Minted Delaney Hall Detention Center

Natalia Marques

The Trump administration opens a new ICE detention center in New Jersey’s biggest city and a hub for immigrant communities, earning a bold response from immigrant rights organizers.