The New Dark Age

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in China was an opportunity for Black Agenda Report to join an international group of journalists working to promote meaningful dialogue on world issues.

SPEECH: Why We Use Violence, Frantz Fanon, 1960

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“This violence of the colonial regime…irreparably provokes the birth of an internal violence in the colonized people.”

Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire Denied Bail, Remanded to Prison

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to self-defense in DRC.

If We Respond to the Genocide in Palestine the Same Way We’re responding to the Climate Crisis, We Should Expect Many More Loss of Lives

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The climate crisis and genocide in Gaza share the same root: capitalism’s willingness to sacrifice the masses. Yet, the institutions built to resist have instead become accomplices.

The Scramble for Mount Vernon? How Capitalists and their Black Middlemen are Colonizing the Jewel of Westchester County, New York

Imani Nile

A majority Black city in Westchester County, a northern suburb of New York City, suffers from years of Black political misleadership and is now under threat by real estate developers who envision the replacement of the Black working class population.

The Bad Hombre Defense?

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR Poet-in-Residence

“The Bad Hombre Defense?” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Not by Trump but Obama and Democrats

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

The real collusion wasn’t between Trump and Putin; it was between intelligence elites and a Democratic establishment.

STATEMENT: Without Immediate Intervention, the Last Reporters in Gaza Will Die, Agence France-Presse/Société de Journalistes, July 21, 2025

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts…but none of us remember seeing a colleague die of hunger.”

46 Years On, Nicaragua’s Youth Still Lead the Revolution

Becca Renk

Celebrating 46 years of revolution, Nicaragua demonstrates that it is possible to respect its heroes and also venerate its youth. Following years of cultivating leadership in its young people, the passing of the torch to a new generation of revolutionaries is not only possible, but it is already happening.

Were Canadian Elections Existential in the Context of US-Canada Tensions?

Pindiga Ambedkar, Arnold August

Interview with Arnold August, writer, political commentator, and analyst of the North American continent, on the political situation in Canada and its relationship to the US.

Poverty and Declining Real Wages in America: Philadelphia Municipal Strike Highlights Worsening Plight of the Working Class

Abayomi Azikiwe

An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working people.

The Fraudulent Peace Accord between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed in Washington DC, June 2025

Horace Campbell

Campbell interrogates the recent DRC-Rwanda peace accord brokered in the US which he terms fraudulent; and poses the question: can the US and Qatar support peace in Africa amidst the militarization of the continent?

AOC Is a Genocidal Con Artist

Caitlin Johnstone

She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.