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About Ajamu Baraka

Ajamu Baraka is the national organizer of the Black Alliance for Peace and was the 2016 candidate for vice president on the Green Party ticket. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC). He is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report and contributing columnist for Counterpunch. He was recently awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial 2019 Peace Prize and the Serena Shirm award for uncompromised integrity in journalism.
  • U.S. and Israel Gangsterism

    U.S. and Israel gangsterism has created a hobbesian International state of nature

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 23, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism.

  • Rally outside prosecutors office in Guayaquil demanding the immediate return of the four disappeared children. Photo: CDH Guayaquil.

    A snapshot of the Global war against African People: Reflections from Ecuador

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 16, 2025 by Claudia O'Brien Moscoso and Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Defying Ecuador’s attempt to bar international monitors, election observers documented how Daniel Noboa’s contested victory, secured amid militarized polling stations and state violence, escalates the assault on Afro-Ecuadorian communities.

  • Malcolm X

    Malcolm X Presente!

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 19, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    On a cold New York afternoon in Harlem February 21, 1965, “Don’t Do it,” were the last words that the world heard from the voice of El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, before the assassins opened fire with a barrage of bullets that would take Malcolm away from us physically.

  • A discussion with Ajamu Baraka on people(s)-centered human rights, a framework born of struggle and crisis

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 11, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Black Alliance for Peace just launched its North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights. Ajamu Baraka and Margaret Kimberley discussed why this project is so necessary.

  • From Pan Africanism to Afropessimism

    From Pan Africanism to Afropessimism: Palestine and the degeneration of Black politics

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 21, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.

  • Venezuela is a Democracy

    Don’t believe the hype: Venezuela is a democracy

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 31, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, discusses observing the recent elections in Venezuela and why the U.S. still seeks to undermine that democracy.

  • People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition

    People(s)-Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 21, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions. But if human rights are to have any relevance for the oppressed, they must be “de-colonized” and given meaning by the oppressed themselves: a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR).

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    Sekou Odinga has joined the ancestors but the spirit of the Black Liberation Army and African Resistance lives on!

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 17, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A commemoration of the life of comrade Sekou Odinga, a lifelong New African revolutionary, former political prisoner, and unstoppable force in the Black liberation movement.

  • John Gast 1872 painting,

    The issue is not racism but the Pan European White Supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy!

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 15, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old.

  • Father with body of his child killed by Israeli shelling in Khan Younis, October 10, 2023 (Photo: AFP)

    The demand for a ceasefire is necessary but not sufficient: The demand must be for decolonization and Palestinian self-determination

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 8, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The people of Gaza are in desperate need of a cease fire, but ultimately they need decolonization and self-determination.

  • War in Africa and the Americas

    War in Africa and the Americas: Accelerating the end of White world supremacy

    Originally published: Hood Communist on August 24, 2023 (more by Hood Communist)  |

    he U.S. recently deployed troops to Peru to shore-up the coup in that country, followed by the deployment of troops to Ecuador and the bizarre AFRICOM plan to insert Kenya and Rwanda forces all the way from Africa to Haiti to support the illegitimate Ariel Henry puppet government in that nation. White supremacy in Black face.

  • At the National Network On Cuba 2022 Fall Meeting, Cuba’s Ambassador to the United Nations Yuri Gala López explains how State Sponsors of Terrorism designation intensifies the U.S. blockade. (Photo: Bill Hackwell)

    U.S. imperialist gangsterism and Cuba

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 14, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Rogue State as “a nation or state regarded as breaking international law and posing a threat to the security of other nations.”

  • Image: WLTX.com

    Durham report reveals the real threat to “democracy” – The FBI weaponized by Democrat Party affiliated elites

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 17, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Six years and millions of dollars later, the “Durham report” released on May 15th confirmed once again what a few of us had the nerve to argue before all of the reports and stories that subsequently emerged—that “Russiagate” was the most massive fraud ever perpetrated on the U.S. public by a section of the capitalist rulers and represented a maturing of a form of U.S. neofascism unique to this historical moment.

  • Paul Robeson subpoena to appear before HUAC

    Africans in the U.S. are a colonized people: A comment on the indictment of the African People’s Socialist Party

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 3, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, “Black Identity Extremists” are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.

  • The Intercept (Photo illustration: Elise Swain/The Intercept; Photos: Getty Images)

    Commemorations of the attack on Iraq March 20th and Libya March 19th reaffirm that the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination remains the greatest threat to International peace on our Planet

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 22, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Iraq and Libya were both targeted by the U.S. in the month of March. The anniversaries of these war crimes must be commemorated, and the nature of the US/EU/NATO war machine must be understood.

  • Malcolm X Speaks in Harlem in June 1963 (Photo: AP)

    Why embracing anti-colonialism made Malcolm a marked man

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 22, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Malcolm X was a legendary revolutionary who is still loved by millions of people. The anniversary of his assassination is an opportunity to reflect on his impact.

  • Zelensky laughs

    The Ukrainian Solidarity Network: The highest stage of White Western social imperialism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 18, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Ukraine conflict was caused by the U.S. backed right wing coup in 2014 and the duplicity of Europeans who claimed to be working for peace. Anyone who supports these actions but claims leftist credentials must be challenged.

  • Mural in Caracas, Venezuela (Photo: Erik Cleves Kristenson)

    The crisis of Western imperialism and the imperative of war and repression

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 30, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The world as we know it must change. Humanity cannot survive under imperialist and capitalist structures.

  • Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron wore the black sun insignia used by Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalioon

    The new White supremacist consensus, Part 2: shootings in Buffalo solidify the consensus

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 18, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The latest mass shooter in Buffalo, New York was clearly a racist, and identified with Ukrainian and other neo-Nazis. But white supremacy has a stronger hold on European and U.S. society than is commonly acknowledged. The avowed racist is not the only problem.

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    The poor people’s campaign and the moral dilemma of liberalism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 4, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The demands for justice at home and abroad must not be sacrificed on the altar of what is called pragmatism. The false choices presented by liberalism can undermine the movement altogether.

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