The New Dark Age

Solidarity Against ICE and the Entire State Apparatus

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Popular resistance against the Trump administration in Los Angeles and other cities is a very positive development and one that Black people must embrace.

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“any where or world where there is love there is the sky and its blue free

where past means present struggle”

Christopher Black: Balancing the Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Christopher C. Black fought for justice in politically agendized international courts.

Jon Jeter

Trump deploys Marines against LA protesters, echoing Nixon’s Kent State crackdown. But this time, he faces a broader, greatly disaffected opposition ready to fight back.

BAR Book Forum: Edna Bonhomme’s Book, “A History of the World in Six Plagues”

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 Edna Bonhomme. Bonhomme is a historian of science, culture writer, and journalist based in Berlin, Germany. Her book is A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19.

Daniel Ortega is No Bukele

Jill Clark-Gollub

Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass incarceration and imperial alliances.

False Promises of Protection Embedded in U.S. Militarism and Carcerality

Aiyana Porter-Cash

“Protection” is a lie—a pretext for state violence, militarism, and control, targeting the marginalized while masking harm as care. True safety comes not from oppressive systems, but from resistance and collective liberation.

Oppression Breeds Resistance, Organization Sustains It

Black Alliance for Peace

Defeating the war on Black/African people requires solidarity with all who are oppressed and resistance against our common enemy.

7 Supreme Court Cases That Black Americans Should Track This Summer

Jonathan Forney

Issues before the high court range from health care access and citizenship to workplace discrimination and redistricting.

ICE Raids Escalate in LA As Community Fights Back

Struggle La Lucha

While ICE and law enforcement unleash raids across LA, protesters stand firm, exposing the brutal machinery of deportation and the state’s violent response to dissent and resistance.

“So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis

Mnar Adley

Gaza’s hospitals have become killing fields, and medical workers witness Israeli forces executing unarmed civilians, including children.

US and Israel Turn “Aid” Centers Into Slaughter Zones

Nora Barrows-Friedman

Nowhere is safe in Gaza. US-backed Israeli forces are turning aid centers into slaughter zones, targeting starving civilians as they desperately search for food and medicine.

Ballots and Bias: How the Press Framed Venezuela’s Regional and Legislative Elections

Roger D. Harris

Roger D. Harris analyzes Western media’s biased and dishonest coverage of Venezuela’s May 25 election and the sweeping Chavismo victory.