In case anyone thinks that the FBI putting Assata Shakur on the Most Wanted Terrorist List is just a symbolic thing without repercussions for our communities and movements, please check out this photo someone snapped in Newark last night: (just coincidentally, this is supposed to take our minds off of the torture of 166 prisoners in […]
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By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 16 (Reuters) – Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter helped unveil a historical marker on Tuesday in the Alabama city where he penned his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” as people worldwide held readings to mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader’s words. More than 100 people gathered […]
Source URL: www.spiritandanimal.wordpress.com/ John Vidal The Observer, Saturday 13 April 2013 Corn in the hands of a farmworker in South Africa. Photograph: Greatstock Photographic Library/Alamy Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a result of extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will […]
Source URL: http://www.alternet.org/investigations/was-rfks-confessed-assassin-subject-govt-program-create-hypnotized-killers?akid=10310.264976.XS2Pbs&rd=1&src=newsletter822302&t=17&paging=off By Russ Baker Sirhan Sirhan‘s new attorney’s central claim is that Sirhan was genuinely unaware of his actions on June 5, 1968. April 9, 2013 | This article first appeared on Who, What, Why. Recent legal filings on behalf of Sirhan Sirhan, jailed 45 years ago in the death of Robert F. […]
by Jean Damu Robert Chrisman and the internationally acclaimed The Black Scholar journal (TBS) are principle beacons of achievement and hope within the movement to create Black Studies departments and ultimately Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies departments. Chrisman and The Black Scholar occupied the vanguard of the struggle for recognition of Black Studies as a serious academic […]
In the Republic of poetry, poets rent a helicopter to bombard the national palace with poems on bookmarks, and everyone in the courtyard rushes to grab a poem fluttering from the sky, blinded by weeping. - Martin Espada “In the Republic of Poetry” If Harriet Tubman were elected president of the United States, the Underground […]
Ashanti Alston and Masai Ehehosi with Molly Porzig From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance Editors Note: In exploring the role of surveillance as a cornerstone of the prison industrial complex (PIC), The Abolitionist wanted to examine it through its history, how it has been used and continues to repress struggles for liberation and self-determination. We interviewed two long-time revolutionaries […]
Greetings Komrades March 13th marks the 34th anniversary of the Grenada Revolution led by the New Jewel Movement. Please join the Radio Diaspora Collective as we salute those who participated in the Revolution, examine the dynamics which obtained and consider the living legacy that we are fortunate to have gained from that struggle. To help […]
Source: http://www.theroot.com/views/how-harriet-tubman-became-black-mirror?page=0,4 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: The myths about her reflect as much about us as they do about her. By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the […]
