The New Dark Age

Super Predators, Born Criminals, and the Black Misleadership Class

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-talking scoundrels may pretend to be horrified while giving legitimacy and assistance to the racist police state.

Extended Remarks from UNAC Webinar: Troops Out of Our Cities! ICE Out of Our Communities! September 7, 2025

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

The Trump administration’s declaration of war on American cities is a logical escalation of the white supremacist project. This is not a policy shift but a clearer revelation of the settler state’s inherent violence against Black and Brown communities.

POEM: The King Alfred Plan, Gil Scott-Heron, 1972

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“…white paranoia is here to stay/The white boy’s scheming night and day/What you think about the King Alfred Plan?”

Ethiopia: National Aspiration, Identity, and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

“Ethiopia just changed the continent of Africa forever.” -African Development Economist and electricity activist – David Himbara @DavidHimbara 

Department of War: What’s new is so old

​​​​​​​ Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Department of War: What’s new is so old” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Tamanisha John

Turning the Caribbean into a US bombing range requires local collaborators. Neocolonial governments have volunteered to play this role, betraying their people’s right to peace and sovereignty.

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of “nature-based solutions,” corporations like the Gates Foundation are pushing schemes that will turn the continent into a carbon sink for the world’s worst polluters.

BAR Book Forum: Tracie Canada’s Book, “Tackling the Everyday”

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 Tracie Canada. Canada is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her book is Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football.

Why the Sanctions Kill Campaign Supports BDS

Jill Clark-Gollub

The SanctionsKill campaign exposes how US economic warfare kills civilians across the Global South. Meanwhile, the Palestinian-led BDS movement represents a legitimate tool of grassroots resistance against Israeli apartheid.

From Refusal to Resilience: How Hurricane Katrina Birthed A Global Health Vanguard

Joshua Reaves

The US government left Black residents to die after Hurricane Katrina, refusing Cuba’s offer of emergency doctors. This racist neglect exposed a truth that the US state would rather sacrifice its own citizens than undermine its anti-communist crusade.

The Military Occupation of Washington, DC: Then and Now

Jacqueline Luqman

The current military occupation of DC is not an anomaly but an escalation of a long war on Black communities, a more visible form of ongoing political subjugation.

Sarah B.

From Bandera to Ben-Gurion, an axis of ethno-supremacy is rising, fueled by U.S. backing. Same guns. Same flags. Same ideology. Gaza and Donbass are not separate wars. They are one machine.

Mohamad Elmasry

The strike on Doha shows that Arab regimes’ silence and passivity in the face of Israeli violence will only invite further aggression.