The New Dark Age

The Knicks and New York’s Disappearing Black Communities

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

It is true that the New York Knicks’ journey to a championship brought disparate communities together, but gentrification remains the norm in the city that is the capital of capital. Black people are still being displaced at a breakneck pace.

ESSAY: Reconstruction, Seventy-Five Years After, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1943

Editors, The Black Agenda Review

“Without the help of the American Negro, the abolition movement would have been impossible.”

“Don’t Worry Be Happy”: The World Cup as an International Psy-Op

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

FIFA uses the World Cup to present the United States as a legitimate nation, but the U.S. is a rogue state committing crimes against humanity. The call for a boycott is a call to decolonize football and to reject FIFA’s role as a broker for sportswashing.

When the Revolution Comes

Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor

Chris Smalls and his best friend, Derrick Palmer, led the first successful drive to unionize an Amazon warehouse. He believes that labor must decouple from the Democratic Party, as he explains in his new book.

Sportswashing: How Capitalism Kills the Game for Poor and Working Class People While Normalizing How Imperialism Oppresses and Kills Them

Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright

A single working mother could once take her child to a Yankees game for $40, but today that money would not even cover the online service fees. Sporting events have been stolen from poor and working class people and are now reserved only for the wealthy elite.

Booing Boss Tweet’s Cruel Reich Cult wherever they go

​​​​​​​Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence

“Booing Boss Tweet’s Cruel Reich Cult wherever they go” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence

Nicaragua and The Miseducation of the People of the United States

2026 Casa Ben Linder Bluefields Delegation

Nicaragua is a living example of anti-imperialist resistance and people-centered development. The job of those in the U.S. is to fight the lies spread by the media and support this revolution through political education and material solidarity.

The Pentagon’s Information War Comes Home

Hassan El Bial
The Pentagon is using censorship to control what Americans see as it carries out aggression around the world. However, censorship and war propaganda did not start with Trump or Hegseth.

The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for a Boycott of the World Cup

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, Austin Cole

The Black Alliance for Peace and other organizations have called for a boycott of the 2026 World Cup being held in the United States. Before any matches were played, the U.S. banned players, fans, and officials, and even forced the Iranian team to stay in Mexico and fly to their U.S. matches. Austin Cole, who is one of three co-coordinators of the Black Alliance for Peace, explains why a boycott of the World Cup and the U.S. is necessary.

Juneteenth Book Signing & Lecture with Prof. Gerald Horne

Dr. Gerald Horne

Join us in person for Juneteenth vibes with Prof. Gerald Horne’s book signing & lecture!

World Cup 2026: FIFA and the U.S.’s White Supremacist Colonial Partnership is already on Full Display

Black Alliance For Peace

FIFA has shown itself to be a colonial instrument that serves white supremacy and U.S. imperialism. Referees, players, and fans from non-white nations are being harassed, denied entry, and brutalized while FIFA looks away.

The Hidden History of Juneteenth

Gregory P. Downs

Most people think Juneteenth was simply when enslaved Texans learned they were free, but that is a myth. They knew the war ended but the fight for freedom did not end with one proclamation; it took months of occupation and struggle against planters who refused to give up their human property.

D.C. Mayor Candidates Are Fixating on Teen Hangouts — and Turning the Cops on Them

Jessica Washington

D.C. mayoral candidate Kenyan McDuffie supports curfews targeting youth. His opponent Janeese Lewis George disagrees but Washington’s colonial status and its lack of home rule make any debate irrelevant.

Luis Britto García: I resist, therefore I am

Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies

“We all know what lies behind the deafening silence that oppresses us. Without any consultation of our will, they intend to strip us of sovereignty, independence, natural resources, autonomy, rights, past, present, and future, in favor of an aggressive power that hates and despises us.”