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Activist protests lack of Blacks working on historic Hampton House project
Activist Ken Knight, pictured at the site of the historic Hampton House, is fighting to get more opportunities for Black contractors and workers in Miami. – Photo: Elgin Jones, South Florida Times by...
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U.S. prisons packed with political prisoners
by Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire Outraged by the assassination of George Jackson in San Quentin, California, and their own intolerable conditions, prisoners at Attica in New York took hostages...
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African Americans and the Gypsies: a cultural relationship formed through...
by Chuck Todaro “The Irish are the niggers of Europe … Say it loud. I’m Black an’ I’m proud,” echoes a memorable quote of ‘90s cinema. ((Alan Parker, director, “The Commitments,” 1991)) But the real...
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Hunger strikes spread to Texas detention center
Systemic abuse by GEO Group and ICE exposed in multi-state effort by detainees in private facilities Tacoma, Wash., and Conroe, Texas – After a massive hunger strike inside the Tacoma Detention Center...
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Houston needs a civilian review board – but Texas needs much more!
by Keith H. Washington, bka Comrade Malik, NABPP Prison Chapter For the past four years, community activists and civil rights leaders in the Houston area have been fighting hard to establish a civilian...
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Why we should listen to the youth fury from Ferguson
by Myles Bess Minutes after arriving in St. Louis, Mo., to report on the events in Ferguson, I bumped into Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson. He’s the uncle of Oscar Grant – the young man who was shot and...
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Solidarity had the might to move the mountain of prison torture that kept us...
by Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and Jabari Scott CDCR deliberately lied about their implementation of the Security Threat Group (STG) Step Down Program (SDP) sanctioned by Gov. Jerry Brown. We prisoners, the...
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‘Selma’ shockingly and sadly relevant
Review by Kia Croom “Selma” gives a window into the turbulent three-month voting rights campaign, a series of pivotal protest marches in 1965 that culminated with President Johnson signing the Voting...
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P.H. Polk, one of ‘10 essential African-American photographers’
by Malaika Kambon “Negroes can never have impartial portraits at the hands of white artists. It seems to us next to impossible for white men to take the likeness of Black men without most grossly...
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Teacher fired for students’ get-well letters to Mumia says we should rethink...
by Christina Coleman “You’re our hero!” Marylin Zuniga Support for the now-suspended New Jersey teacher who allowed her third-graders to write get-well letters to former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal...
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President Obama, grant clemency to Dr. Mutulu, Veronza, Leonard, Oscar and,...
by The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee Dear Mr. President, On behalf of The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, a memorial and humanitarian project dedicated to preserving the legacy of Malcolm X in...
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FBI, the political police
by Marc Sapir, MD, MPH When FBI director James Comey dropped a propaganda bomb that blew up the 2016 presidential election and probably changed how the U.S. will be governed for some time to come, he...
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Resistance builds against social media ban in Texas prisons
by Kamala Kelkar “National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 1859887, Clements Unit, 9601 Spur 591, Amarillo TX 79107 When Texas correctional officials earlier this...
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Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr., pastor emeritus of historic Riverside Church in...
Good Friday Service is March 30, noon to 1:30 p.m., at Third Baptist Church of San Francisco, 1399 McAllister St., San Francisco This year’s Good Friday Service at the historic Third Baptist Church of...
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About Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) and the 1968 Olympic protest: An interview...
by Heather Gray of Justice Initiative H. Rap Brown, John Carlos, Harry Edwards and Stokely Carmichael hold a press conference at Howard University in Washington, D.C., about the Olympic Project for...
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Activist protests lack of Blacks working on historic Hampton House project
by Elgin Jones Miami – A historic motel that served as a haven for Black entertainers during segregation is now at the center of a racial discrimination protest. The Hampton House Motel in Miami’s...
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U.S. prisons packed with political prisoners
by Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire This year marks the 33rd anniversary of Black August, the annual commemoration of the liberation struggle of African people inside the United States. The month...
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African Americans and the Gypsies: a cultural relationship formed through...
by Chuck Todaro “The Irish are the niggers of Europe … Say it loud. I’m Black an’ I’m proud,” echoes a memorable quote of ‘90s cinema. ((Alan Parker, director, “The Commitments,” 1991)) But the real...
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Hunger strikes spread to Texas detention center
Systemic abuse by GEO Group and ICE exposed in multi-state effort by detainees in private facilities Tacoma, Wash., and Conroe, Texas – After a massive hunger strike inside the Tacoma Detention Center...
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Houston needs a civilian review board – but Texas needs much more!
by Keith H. Washington, bka Comrade Malik, NABPP Prison Chapter For the past four years, community activists and civil rights leaders in the Houston area have been fighting hard to establish a civilian...
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