Wednesday, 10 June 2026 — Black Agenda Report
The Obama Center is a Monument to the More Effective Evil
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Barack Obama bailed out the banks, deported millions, and devastated nations and millions of people through wars of aggression. The $850 million Obama Center is a monument to his role as the “more effective evil” in U.S. politics.
ESSAY: All the World’s a Ball, Eduardo Galeano, 1998
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“Professional soccer does everything to [destroy] that energy of happiness, but it survives in spite of all the spites.”
The Beautiful Game Can’t Hide the Ugly
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The United States should never host the World Cup because it is a country built on racism, repression, and endless war. FIFA and its leaders ignored international demands to host the matches elsewhere and now face calls for a boycott of the World Cup and of the U.S.
Gambling Man
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“Gambling Man” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
Bolivia in Crisis pt 2: In Conversation with Evo Morales
Clau O’Brien Moscoso
In a Black Agenda Report exclusive on May 29, 2026, former Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma spoke with correspondent Clau O’Brien Moscoso. In the recent presidential election won by Rodrigo Paz, Evo Morales, the people’s candidate and first indigenous president of the plurinational state of Bolivia, was banned using various mechanisms of lawfare which prevented him from successfully running a fair campaign. They also discussed the now five week long general strike.
Security Crises Around the Sahel: Nigeria and the Alliance of Sahel States
Francis Phillip
The Alliance of Sahel States are fighting against western backed terrorists. But neighboring Nigeria is a western puppet state and does not protect its own people or territorial integrity, choosing instead to back U.S. dictates.
Cuba will not surrender! Cuba persists and resists! And that persistence is intolerable to the empire!
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez
Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, at the commemoration of the 95th birthday of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and the 65th anniversary of the creation of the Ministry of the Interior, at the Karl Marx Theater, June 5, 2026, “Year of the Centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz.”
Statement of Condemnation of the Plan to Have Emmanuel Macron Deliver a Keynote Address on Reparations in Ghana
Socialist Movement of Ghana, Dhoruba bin-Wahad
The Socialist Movement of Ghana declared its strong opposition to their government’s invitation to French president Emmanuel Macron to speak at a conference on reparations. We present Dhoruba bin Wahad’s analysis as an introduction to their statement.
Siege Socialism or Barbarism: Why We Must Stand with Cuba
Carlos Martinez
Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are astounding, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak.
The New Dark Age 
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