The New Dark Age

The Urgent Need for the Black Radical Tradition

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

The U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed.

SONG: International Organizations/Oganizasyon Mondyal, Manno Charlemagne, 1986

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“We salute all peoples who are fighting/We honor all those who have died/For the cause of freedom.”

Africa and the Pan-African History of Black Studies

Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor

This lecture was delivered on February 3, 2026, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada) for the monthly series “Black History and the Project of Black Studies.”

Syria: Anatomy of a Regime Change

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Dan Kovalik and Jeremy Kuzmarov’s Syria: Anatomy of a Regime Change was published on September 1, 2025. What can it teach us now that the empire has pulled the trigger on three more nations resisting its drive to dominate?

Everything they touch turns to rubble

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Everything they touch turns to rubble” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Prison System in Tennessee: A Cycle of Racism and Control

Lindy Drolsum
Tennessee’s claim of being “tough on crime” means racialized policing and incarceration, and profit making off of marginalized people.

COMMUNITY CONTROL DC: A People’s Platform for Collective Self-Determination

​​​​​​​Pan-African Community Action

While Washington DC’s political leadership changes, Pan-African Community Action (PACA) is organizing to ensure that Black communities are empowered in decision making processes.

100 Days From the World Cup, an International Coalition is Calling on FIFA to Move the Games From the U.S.

North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights

The US has disqualified itself from hosting the World Cup through wars, genocide, and domestic repression.

Israel is using the ‘Gaza doctrine’ in Lebanon and Iran

Faris Giacaman

For years, Israel used the “Dahiya doctrine” in Gaza. Now it’s using the “Gaza doctrine” in Dahiya — and Tehran.

Oil War Sends the Bill to Workers

Gary Wilson

The cost of the United States’ war on Iran is falling hardest on the working class.

The Global African Implications of US-Israel Aggression Towards Iran

Pambazuka News Editors

Global Africa must oppose military aggression. Global Africans must stand with the Iranians and prepare to navigate the ripple effects of this war on African peoples.