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About Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere.
  • Carlos Sirah of Black Alliance for Peace SoCal speaks as community groups in Los Angeles unite against ICE. Photo by Abraham Marquez for L.A. TACO

    Solidarity against ICE and the entire State apparatus

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 11, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Popular resistance against the Trump administration in Los Angeles and other cities is a very positive development and one that Black people must embrace.

  • Founding 13 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, 1971. Charles Rangel, standing second from the left. (Courtesy Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)

    Charles Rangel and the end of Black politics

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 28, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.

  • Image of President Donald Trump and Brad Karp, Chairman of Paul Weiss. Steven Ferdman/Getty Images; Business Insider

    Trump exposes the elite classes

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 2, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    While Trump dedicates himself to making every conservative fantasy come true, millions wonder who will save them from the onslaught of the right wing fever dream. The answer is no one but ourselves.

  • Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during their meeting at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025. (AFP/SPA)

    Ukraine, war propaganda, and the return of Russiagate

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 26, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    We must be able to acknowledge that Donald Trump has created a serious constitutional crisis while also recognizing that changing the U.S. relationship with Russia is groundbreaking and a necessity.

  • Rev. Al Sharpton at Costco acknowledging the retailer's support for DEI programs. Photo: Brian Branch Price/ZUMA Press Wi

    The death of DEI

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 29, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that “diversity” can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do.

  • Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

    Joe Biden’s terrible legacy

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 15, 2025 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests, like all of his white house predecessors.

  • Donald Trump and Eric Adams attended the Al Smith Dinner in New York on October 17, 2024. [Photo: AP]

    Eric Adams and Daniel Penny make Black People the face of crime

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 18, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams’ defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.

  • 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.

  • Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, AP Hunter Biden, DailyMail.com

    The problem with Joe and Hunter

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 4, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The outrage surrounding President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden is not just about clemency for the relatively minor charges he was facing. The younger Biden has lived a life of great privileges, all granted to him by his father, who is equally undeserving of his own success. Fortunately, the two corrupt mediocrities will soon fade away and the public will be spared from watching them fail upward.

  • Donald Trump celebrates victory on election night (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

    How Trump won and what Black people should do

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 6, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris must be a wake up call to Black people. The Democratic Party is a dead end and a movement killer. Our survival depends on getting that corrupt wing of the duopoly out of our lives and out of our politics.

  • Resident looks at his cell phone during power failure in Havana, Cuba, October 20, 2024. Ramon Espinosa - staff, ASSOCIATED PRESS

    The U.S. continues its terror campaign against Cuba

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 24, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The ongoing U.S./Israeli genocide has diverted attention away from other crimes. The electricity crisis in Cuba is but one example of how the U.S. determination to dominate has created suffering around the world.

  • 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.

  • webtv.un.org

    Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent peaceful solutions

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 22, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, was invited to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 20, 2024, as a civil society representative. The subject of the meeting was weapons supplies to Ukraine as a threat to peace and security.

  • Ortanzso Bovell was killed by John Chell, now NYPD Chief of Patrol - Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty

    Eric Adams and the NYPD repress Dissent

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 8, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class.

  • 2024 United National Antiwar Coalition

    UNAC Conference: Decolonization and the fight against imperialism

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 10, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The recent 2024 United National Antiwar Coalition conference brought together an international group of activists from member organizations who organize against imperialism, racism, and neo-liberal policies around the world. BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Margaret Kimberley delivered these closing remarks.

  • Haitians deported from the U.S. recover their scattered belongs at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. in 2021. Joseph Odelyn/AP

    Racist asylum and immigration policy in the U.S. and Canada

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 6, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Fears of an “invasion” at the border are nothing more than white supremacy being openly expressed. It could not be otherwise in a settler colony created by migration from Europe. To millions of people the word American still refers to whites only.

  • Fani Willis and Nicholas Wade - Getty Images

    Phony Fani Willis, misguided support, and the Atlanta Plantation

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

    Public reaction to the Fani Willis soap opera is an example of how cynical Black misleadership creates confusion among the masses.

  • Netherlands prime minister Mark Rutte meets Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo - Mark Rutte, @MinPres/ X Platform)

    “Democracies” deny the popular will while suppressing protest and dissent

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 14, 2024 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The nations that brag the most about “democracy” routinely ignore the will of their people. Support for Israel’s war crimes in Gaza is but one example of this phenomenon.

  • Secretary of State Blinken meets with UNRWA officials in November 2023 (Photo: X platform @SecBlinken)

    U.S. ramps up war crimes after ICJ rules against Israel

    Margaret Kimberley

    The Biden administration colluded with Israel to slander the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine in anticipation of the ICJ ruling against Israel on the charge of genocide. Washington is attempting to cover up genocide by committing the war crime of collective punishment against the people of Gaza.

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