Wednesday, 19 August 2026 — Black Agenda Report
“Woke 1” and Democratic Party Deceit
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The democrats’ backtracking on what they dismissively refer to as “wokeness” is the newest iteration of their political trickery as once again they give the appearance of supporting what they actually oppose. They serve the interests of the oligarchs, and not those of the people.
ESSAY: “People’s Power, No Dictator!” Walter Rodney, 1979
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
“The Burnham dictatorship crept up upon Guyanese people like a thief in the night.”
Johanna Fernandez and her Unrelenting Advocacy for Mumia Abu Jamal
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
The late Dr. Johanna Fernandez left an awesome intellectual and activist legacy that includes her 2010 documentary film “Justice on Trial: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.”
White Supremacy and Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations and as a belief system which is unconcerned about Black and brown death.
They Wear The Masks
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
“They Wear The Masks” is the latest from BAR’s Poet-in-Residence.
North Nashville’s Reckoning: The Fight for Sovereignty in the Shadow of a Data Center
Wolfgang Bronner
Fisk University, an HBCU, is presenting a $400 million A.I. data center as progress for the North Nashville community. In truth, it means more pollution, more surveillance, and another chapter in a century of land dispossession dressed up as economic development.
A Judge Said Queens Prosecutors Hid Evidence. A Secret Committee Cleared Them Anyway
Ryan Kost
The mass incarceration system demands thousands of Black bodies behind bars. That system is maintained by prosecutorial misconduct which goes unpunished. That impunity is integral to keeping the prison industrial complex running as intended.
Who Killed Jason Arday?
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Arday was killed by the contradiction at the heart of white elite institutions: they want the appearance of racial progress without structural change, and they readily discard Black people, even those they may have once promoted.
United States and Israeli Policy Further Divides Somalia
Abayomi Azikiwe
White House to cut back on United Nations assistance while there is continued military and diplomatic interference by Washington and Tel Aviv in support of Somaliland, which has not been recognized by any nation except Israel.
Beyond the “Delcyification” of Analysis
Kimberly D. Miller
Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.
A Shady Figure Will Preside Over Colombia
Hedelberto López Blanch
Colombia’s new president has ties to paramilitaries and drug traffickers, but Trump’s endorsement swept his crimes aside as he embraces Washington’s agenda, including enhancing relations with Israel and ending relations with Cuba and Nicaragua.
Venezuela Is Not Iran
Luis Britto García
Venezuela is not Iran or Cuba, but those nations teach us that sovereignty is not given but is obtained through resistance. Venezuela must forge its own path toward sovereignty.
Fergie Chambers, the Millionaire Activist Arrested in Ibiza: “I am a human rights advocate”
Natalia Junquera, Elena Reina
The American’s lawyers, led by Baltasar Garzón, denounce a “political persecution” by Trump for his support of Palestine. The government will have to decide whether to extradite him.
The New Dark Age 
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