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‘Selma’: Unexpected bounty
Review by Salim Muwakkil Screenwriter Paul Webb, director Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo portray a humanized Dr. Martin Luther King. – Photo: Atsushi Nishijima, Paramount Pictures I’ve finally...
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The third edition of the ‘Monumental Battle Cry for Cuba and Zimbabwe’ has...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Writer, reporter and Pan Africanist Obi Egbuna, the U.S. correspondent to the Zimbabwean national newspaper The Herald, is one of the most active and...
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50th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion, a turning point in the struggle for...
by Abayomi Azikiwe Police, bolstered by the California National Guard, showed the Watts rebels no mercy, but the people were determined to be heard. It took 14,000 National Guard troops, 3,000 arrests,...
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Remembering Dedon Kamathi
by Thomas Mountain Dedon Kamathi, a former Black Panther and Central Committee member of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), passed away at the end of August after suffering a stroke....
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A-APRP comrade speaks on the work of the late Dedon Kamathi
by The People’s Minister of Information JR I have known Dedon Kamathi of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party for almost 20 years. I met him and his comrade Munyiga Lumumba while I was a...
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Half the story has never been told: Commission of Inquiry into the death of...
by Gerald A. Perreira Preface This article was prompted by the unrelenting campaign by friends and associates of the late Dr. Walter Rodney, to maintain the false accusation that Forbes Burnham ordered...
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Black Power, Black Lives and Pan-Africanism Conference underway now in...
Conference is Thursday-Sunday, June 16-19, at the Chokwe Lumumba Center for Economic Democracy and Development, 939 West Capitol St., Jackson, MS 39203 by Kali Akuno A brief history of Black power...
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SNCC Legacy Project endorses the Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform
by Jamilah King A group of civil rights era activists have passed the torch to a younger generation, so to speak. Leaders of SNCC James Forman, Cleveland Sellers, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Stokely...
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Salute to a great freedom fighter: The indomitable spirit of Fidel Castro...
by Gerald A. Perreira on behalf of the Organization for the Victory of the People, Guyana, South America Fidel Castro can never die. Today he departed the physical plane, but he will live on forever....
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White fear and the unbearable reality of Black perfection
by Jacqueline Bediako On Sept. 16, the entire Garfield High School football team in Seattle took a knee during the national anthem, and a month later thousands of Seattle public school teachers wore...
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Economics of empire drowns Houston
by Wanda Sabir Houston Black United Front, in this building they own, is headquarters for Black relief. NBUF reports: “Update Friday, Sept. 1, 7:45 a.m. Today Friday, Saturday, Sunday starting 10:30...
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Mercury in retrograde: Las Vegas cops assault NFL star Michael Bennett
by Ann Garrison The stars were in the bars and Mercury was in retrograde when Las Vegas cops jumped NFL star Michael Bennett, held a gun to his head and threatened to blow it off. How else could they...
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Remembering Muammar Qaddafi and the great Libyan Jamahiriya
Circa 1970: Muammar Qaddafi with members of the Free Unionist Officers who later formed the Revolutionary Command Council. Far right is Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr who, at 71 years of age, was captured...
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Wanda’s Picks April 2018
by Wanda Sabir On the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination, Wednesday, April 4, we need to stop and reflect on the many landmark movements which began 50 years ago … like hip-hop. Rene Guzman,...
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The unofficial gag order of Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown): 16 years in prison,...
by Obaid H. Siddiqui At the modern intersection of Islamophobia and the Black Lives Matter movement resides Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), the now forgotten civil rights activist and...
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How the 1968 uprisings gave us the Civil Rights Act of 1968
by Eugene Puryear The 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is, rightfully, the cause of great reflection as well as numerous calls to action. So much of what Dr....
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Four hundred years, 5859-6259 AAC (1619-2019 JC-PG): ‘James-town,’ the ‘13...
by Baba Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at Dr. Maulana Karenga, creator of the Kwanzaa Holy Season and Nguzo Saba, on this year’s UMOJA day in Los Angeles, with Baba Jahahara. Dr. Karenga is also a...
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John Lewis’ militant speech at the March on Washington
John Lewis speaks at the March on Washington. John Lewis, then the 23-year-old leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC, delivered a speech at the Aug. 28, 1963,...
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Tellin’ stories about the FBI
In a largely ignored March hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, right, discussed the increasingly close collaboration of local and state police with FBI to establish...
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Long live the Cuban Revolution, a beacon of hope for all humanity
Supporters of the Cuban government carry a photograph of Cuba’s late President Fidel Castro during a counterprotest in support of the government in Havana on Sunday. – Photo: Alexandre Meneghini,...
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