If one were to examine closely the hegemonic discourses of black American history, one would be surprised to find a long history of militant armed struggle. Slave rebellions, urban “guerilla” insurgencies, rural defense leagues, are all part of a tapestry of black militant rebellion to subjugation. Rashad Shabazz Issue #71, December 2004 If one were to […]
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On May 2, the U.S. government falsely branded Assata Shakur (s.n. Joanne Chesimard) as a “terrorist” placing her name as the first woman on the most wanted terrorist list, with obvious alternative motives, but supposedly for the false charges forty years ago. This act is doubly scurrilous as it implies that Cuba, a country that has suffered […]
Wed, 05/08/2013 – 10:00 — Margaret Kimberley by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Thanks to The First Black President and The First Black Attorney General, “the only people safe in speaking of or contacting Shakur are those who mean her harm.” To speak of Black liberation, its heroes and history, is […]
Wed, 05/15/2013 – 00:12 — Glen Ford A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford These days, a radical label can get you killed. In National Security Speech, “it is clear that to ‘radicalize’ means very much the same as to ‘weaponize’; the radicalized person has been transformed into a weapon.” Under […]
“Obama uses Jay Z to Trap Assata Shakur”: Shades of FBI and Al Sharpton? -Kalonji Changa raps with Dhoruba Bin Wahad The FTP Movement has long taken the position that Black elected officials and Congresspersons should reopen the investigation into the counterintelligence program and what it […]
The attack on Sister Assata Shakur is an attack on the right of the Black masses and the Black liberation movement to resist oppression. The U.S. government and all of its branches have always persecuted, jailed, exiled and murdered Black activists and revolutionaries no matter their philosophies or tactics-communism, Pan Africanism, separation, revolutionary nationalism, integration; nonviolence, […]
Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard) First Woman Added to List 05/02/13– On the 40th anniversary of the cold-blooded murder of a New Jersey state trooper, the fugitive convicted of the killing, Joanne Chesimard, has been named a Most Wanted Terrorist by the FBI—the first woman ever to make the list. Officials from the FBI and the […]
Kathleen Cleaver will be the keynote speaker by Mohammed Mubarak *Back in October 1968 I was just a 16 year old junior at Centennial High School in when I met a young man named, John Huggins. He was passing out Black Panther Party leaflets as school was letting out, that promoted a big upcoming event that […]
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr “Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.” […]
Lucasville prisoners lead spreading hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary by The People’s Minister of Information JR Twenty years ago, there was a prison uprising in a U.S. concentration camp commonly known as Lucasville to the community and prisoners but as Southern Ohio Correctional Facility on paper. A number of people were murdered including a […]
