Wednesday, 6 May 2026 — Black Agenda Report
The Voting Rights Act and the Need for Movement Politics
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
From the 1870 15th Amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, voting rights for Black people have proven to be ephemeral. Laws can be unenforced or gutted altogether. Black people’s rights must be defended by mass popular action.
LETTER: Pedro Pérez Sarduy to Carlos Moore, 1990
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“I felt proud to be black in a country in revolution with a leader of Iberian ancestry who had launched Operation Carlota, in one of the hardest terrains on the African continent…”
Eritrea and the “Internal Government Document Seen by Reuters”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Reuters reports on a mysterious government document seeming to confirm that sanctions will be lifted on Eritrea.
In its Lynching of the Voting Rights Act, Did SCOTUS Just Do Us A Favor By Elucidating the Lies of “America?”
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais revealed that Black people’s limited electoral power is not protected, and it never has been.
The Republic of Mali Still Stands: A Sahelian coup d’état that almost was
Jeremy Miller
The attack on Mali was a coordinated international destabilization campaign, but as is usually the case, any coverage from the Western press hides the full story.
Entertainment as Militarization: The Spectacle of the Super Bowl & WrestleMania in Nashville
Wolfgang Bronner
The spectacle of major sporting events does not simply distract from a city’s crackdown on the working class. It is a mechanism through which it is normalized and accelerated.
Supreme Court attacks Black voting rights, Native nations
Gary Wilson
The Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision has given state legislatures the green light to break up Black and Native voting districts.
How the US Pulled off an Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply and Created the Petrogas-Dollar
Richard Medhurst
A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean.
May Day: Exporting the Southern Plantocracy
Sherronda J. Brown, Tea Troutman, Aarohi Sheth
The South has always been the region where the most exploitative labor practices are tested first.
The Imperialist Attack on the Alliance of Sahel States 2.0
Kribsoo Diallo, Essam Elkorghli
From foreign-backed ambushes to French-orchestrated destabilization, this analysis exposes how imperialism weaponizes minority struggles to fracture the Sahel — and why only Pan‑African unity can defy a new scramble for Africa.
Exaggerated Claims by White Nationalists About Latino Migration to US
John Perry
The same exaggerated numbers that buoy Trump’s border panic also help US-funded NGOs attack socialist governments.
The New Dark Age 
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