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About Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere.
  • Biden at Bethel AME Church Wilmington DE Photo credit: Reuters

    On the Biden plantation

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 19, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created to help the unpopular candidate secure an electoral victory. The reality is a litany of lies and certain defeat for democrats at the polls. There is no harm reduction in a system dedicated to neo-liberalism and austerity.

  • Jackson, Mississippi abortion protest - Photo Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

    Democratic Party betrayal, abortion, and the Supreme Court

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 8, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “ What about the Supreme Court?” Those words are used to thwart any discussion which questions support for the Democratic Party.

  • Narratives are Amplified with Badly Photoshopped Falsehoods

    China is not colonizing Africa

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 1, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    International media cannot be trusted to give accurate information. Skepticism is especially warranted when China is the topic and allegations of colonizing Africa make headlines.

  • Voters waiting their turn in line, Nicaragua

    U.S. threatens regime change in Nicaragua

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 11, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Nicaragua has been a target of U.S. aggressions since the 1850s. The Biden administration’s attack on the newly elected government is the latest chapter in a long and sordid history. Eyewitness accounts of the electoral process reveal the manipulations and lies concocted by the U.S. and its corporate media partners in this latest regime change effort.

  • The Obama Presidential Center Will Displace Black People

    The Obama Presidential Center will displace Black people

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 13, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Obama Presidential Center will inevitably displace a working class Black community in Chicago. The center is in keeping with Obama’s history of doing the bidding of the powerful, including accelerating gentrification.

  • Thousands of Police Killings Are Unreported

    Thousands of police killings are unreported

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 6, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted.

  • "Patient receiving dialysis" by shanelkalicharan is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

    “Race Norming” and Health Care Jim Crow

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 29, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The term “race norming ” ought to be immediately suspected as having a nefarious intent. Anything referred to as norming in a racist society invariably ends with Black people getting the short end of the stick.

  • Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel

    Freedom Rider: Standing with the Cuban people

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on July 23, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    The current Black-centered Cuban protest operation is very well orchestrated and if Black people in this country are not careful, they will end up amplifying the dictates of U.S. imperialism.

  • Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th

    Freedom Rider: The terrible origins of July 4th

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on July 1, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.

  • Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police

    Freedom Rider: The truth about defunding police

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 9, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    “Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs. One year ago, thousands of people engaged in protest in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer. A persistent protest […]

  • Freedom Rider: Biden Breaks His Promises

    Freedom Rider: Biden breaks his promises

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 27, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Black people have nothing to show for a Biden presidency despite turning out in droves to put him in office.

  • Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus Test

    Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus test

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 19, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    President Joe Biden continues to proclaim endless support of apartheid Israel, but millions have decided that defense of Palestinian rights and lives is the only civilized response to barbaric aggression.

  • Democratic Representative-elect Ilhan Omar (C) of Minnesota, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, poses in the front row with other incoming newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC199D14A510

    Freedom Rider: Progressives capitulate to Biden

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on May 6, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.

  • Freedom Rider: Gun Violence Starts at the Top

    Freedom Rider: Gun violence starts at the top

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 21, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit.

  • Freedom Rider: Establishment Role in Anti-Asian Bigotry

    Freedom Rider: Establishment role in anti-Asian bigotry

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 24, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Joe Biden is no better than Trump in advocating de facto white supremacy with his foreign policy, and corporate media fan the flames of anti-Chinese racism.

  • Freedom Rider: Forced Labor in the U.S.

    Freedom Rider: Forced labor in the U.S.

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider on February 10, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report - Freedom Rider)  |

    Forced labor of Uyghurs in China is questionable, but there is absolute proof that incarcerated people in this country are forced to work for little or no pay.

  • Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden Era

    Freedom Rider: Censorship in the Biden era

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 25, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The corporate media have joined the incoming administration in deciding what we can and cannot see and hear.

  • Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life

    Freedom Rider: Breonna Taylor and Black Life

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 30, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Reactions to the Breonna Taylor murder, settlement and verdict all have one thing in common: Black people’s inability to protect our lives.

  • Freedom Rider: The U.S. Is a Racist Militia

    Freedom Rider: The U.S. is a racist militia

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 2, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    U.S. cops are already racist and brutal, and any militia “infiltrators” would feel right at home.

  • Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other Lies

    Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and other lies

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 19, 2020 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    When the Democratic Party ends its charade of a primary process and spits out the person most closely aligned with neo-liberal policies, the gas lighting begins.

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  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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