The New Dark Age

Betrayal in Venezuela

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Venezuela’s betrayal of Alex Saab in handing him over to the U.S. leaves little room for debate. The Bolivarian revolution has been seriously undermined and can only be revived by the Venezuelan people themselves.

Malcolm X and Human Rights in the Time of Trumpism: Transcending the Masters Tools

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

Malcolm X understood that “oppressed peoples must commit themselves to radical political struggle in order to advance a dignified approach to human rights.” What’s needed is a bottom-up mass movement for People(s)-Centered Human Rights, a “political project in the service of the oppressed” that “names the enemies of freedom: the Western white supremacist, colonial/capitalist patriarchy.” Social revolution is the only solution.

ESSAY: The Palestine Question: Background and Solution, Edward Atiyah, 1946

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“It is impossible to make a national home for one people in a country inhabited by another, except by dislodging the latter.”

That Sunday morning Mom cried …

Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“That Sunday morning Mom cried …” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.

Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, Ahmed Kaballo

Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report speaks with Ahmed Kaballo, founder of Nairobi-based Sovereign Media, about the Africa Forward summit with France, the Pan-Africanism Summit Against Imperialism (PASAI) counter-summit, and Africa’s struggle to be free from imperialism.

Annexationist Chauvinism: There is No Justification for the Venezuela-Guyana Essequibo Border Dispute

Tamanisha J. John

The Essequibo dispute benefits Exxon Mobil and the Pentagon while crushing anti-imperialist solidarity.

Cuba Is Not a Failed State – It Is a Besieged State

Roger Harris, Sara Flounders
The same week Cuba mobilized millions to defend its revolution, the White House imposed even more illegal measures in an effort to strangle the country into submission.

Police tear gas and arrest protesters at France-Africa counter summit in Nairobi

Nicholas Mwangi

Organizers, activists, intellectuals, and international delegates were arrested in Nairobi during an anti-imperialist protest against the France–Africa Summit, which critics have described as an attempt at imperialist repositioning in East Africa.

From Louisiana to Havana: Law as a weapon against Black power and liberation

Gary Wilson

The same legal machinery that once protected Jim Crow segregation has found a new way to strip Black voters of political power without touching the right to cast a ballot.

Venezuela: Diosdado Cabello and Delcy Rodríguez Justify Controversial Alex Saab Deportation Amid Growing Backlash

Orinoco Tribune

Delcy Rodríguez insists that every decision made since January 3 serves to benefit Venezuela. The deportation of Alex Saab to the U.S. discredits that claim.