African America

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Fighting Trump and the Black Collaborators Too
24 Sep 2025
Fighting Trump’s racist attacks is obviously a necessity but that fight must include opposing the Black misleadership class and their collaboration.
Erica Caines
“Crime”, The Trojan Horse For Colonial Control
24 Sep 2025
The rhetoric of crime prevention has always served to enforce colonial order. Today, this same logic drives the policing of Black neighborhoods as a form of urban pacification.
Pan-African Community Action , Black Alliance for Peace D.C Citywide Alliance
U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform
24 Sep 2025
A federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., is escalating a bipartisan war against the Black working class. This assault, enabled by local Black misleadership, exposes the colonial nature of policing.
Frank Chapman
How the Enemies of Our Movement Are Using the Kirk Assassination
24 Sep 2025
Charlie Kirk's assassination has become the pretext to accelerate a pre-existing fascist agenda, targeting a broad spectrum of forces, from leftist organizers to mainstream institutions.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
The Black Puerto Rican Radical Tradition
19 Sep 2025
Our guest is Rosa Clemente, who is an activist, independent journalist, and currently a Doctoral student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst…
Jon Jeter
How Charlie Kirk’s Murder Exposes Free Speech as a Tool for American Exceptionalism
17 Sep 2025
The assassination of a far-right demagogue raises the question: when does 'free speech' become a tool for inciting violence? Nations like South Africa and Brazil have decided that some speech is not…
Ryan Mills
OPINION: The National Black Radical Organizing Conference: Carrying on Tradition
17 Sep 2025
Organizer Ryan Mills shares his firsthand experience as one of the organizers of the 2025 National Black Radical Organizing Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. "This was truly an event that I will…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors
12 Sep 2025
Joy James is a scholar and a political philosopher who works with organizers. She is editor of the new book Confronting Counterinsurgency: Cop Cities & Democracy’s Terrors, which is published by…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Super Predators, Born Criminals, and the Black Misleadership Class
10 Sep 2025
The treachery of the Black misleadership class knows no bounds. While Trump’s latest racist dog whistle about “born criminals” is condemned, double-talking scoundrels may pretend to be horrified…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
POEM: The King Alfred Plan, Gil Scott-Heron, 1972
10 Sep 2025
“...white paranoia is here to stay/The white boy's scheming night and day/What you think about the King Alfred Plan?”