Wednesday, 17 September 2025 — Black Agenda Report
White Power
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The power structure in the U.S. can be boiled down to a system of might, and white, making right. Donald Trump has exposed its rotten foundations and the two-faced collaborators who keep it running.
ESSAY: U.S., The Caribbean, and the Future, Tim Hector, 1984
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“There has been divide and rule in the modern Caribbean with a vengeance, all in the interest of US hegemony over the economic, military and political destiny of the Caribbean as a whole.”
Neocolonialism in Africa, from the IMF and the World Bank to the International Caucasian Court for Prosecuting Africans
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Remarks prepared for a 09/16/25 Covert Action webinar on Neocolonialism in Africa.
How Charlie Kirk’s Murder Exposes Free Speech as a Tool for American Exceptionalism
Jon Jeter
The assassination of a far-right demagogue raises the question: when does ‘free speech’ become a tool for inciting violence? Nations like South Africa and Brazil have decided that some speech is not protected.
Africa Climate Summit Reflections Part 2: The Youth Are Getting Restless…and That’s a Good Thing
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
“The youth are getting restless. I can’t hear you, Let them hear you all the way to Washington, The youth are getting restless, Own creation, The Youth are Getting Restless, And once again a nation, I and I” – Bad Brains
School Shooting Du Jour. War Of The Week
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“School Shooting Du Jour. War Of The Week” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
Bolsonaro and Brazil at the Edge
R.E. Wilson
Bolsonaro’s conviction is not a victory for democracy but a revelation of its fragility. It exposes a military that remains the armed wing of the ruling class and a fascist project dedicated to suppressing Brazil’s Black majority.
The Imperial Contradiction Behind the 2023 Fuel Subsidy Removal in Nigeria
Francis Phillip
Nigeria’s inability to refine its own oil is a legacy of British and US imperialism designed to maintain dependence. President Tinubu’s removal of the fuel subsidy was not an economic reform but an act of obedience.
OPINION: The National Black Radical Organizing Conference: Carrying on Tradition
Ryan Mills
Organizer Ryan Mills shares his firsthand experience as one of the organizers of the 2025 National Black Radical Organizing Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. “This was truly an event that I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Capitalism Hijacked the World to Keep Contributing to Genocide—BRICS Proves It
BettBeat
We are like addicts who scream “no” while stabbing the needle into our arms. The rational mind recoils from the horror, but the economic body continues its automated motions of complicity.
Guyana: A Pawn of US Imperialism
Gerald A. Perreira
Guyana’s leadership is a willing pawn for US imperialism, endangering regional peace for the sake of placating the hegemon.
New York state sends police chiefs to Israel for ‘counterterrorism’ training
Middle East Eye Staff
This is the second training visit for US officers that has been hosted by an Israeli government agency during Israel’s war on Gaza.
The New Dark Age 
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