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Buy Black Wednesdays: What does it mean to be a born-again African?
by Paradise Free Jahlove The Lower Bottom Playaz will bring August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” to this beautiful set, designed by David Anderson, on Aug. 19, opening night. The Sister Thea Bowman...
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A Harriet Tubman Christmas story: an interview with ‘Go Tell It!’ playwright...
by People’s Minister of Information JR Taiwo Kujichagulia-Seitu took almost half a decade to recreate her debut theatrical piece that centers around the story of Harriet Tubman rescuing her brothers...
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White power to the rescue
by Chris Hedges On a windy afternoon a few days ago I went to a depressed section of North Memphis to visit an old clapboard house that was once owned by a German immigrant named Jacob Burkle. Oral...
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Crime, criminalization and gun control: Oakland leads the way in crime hysteria
by Chris Kinder As the Obama administration ramped up its response to its victory in the 2012 elections, the horrific massacre of young children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown,...
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Leo L. Robinson, ILWU Local 10: Guerrilla fighter for the people
by Malaika Kambon Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group using the element of surprise and extraordinary mobility dominates a larger and less-mobile traditional army or...
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Lyric Performing Arts Academy is set to open in September ‘13: an interview...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR With the U.S. economy turning a blind eye to unemployment in the Black community, it is on us to create business and employment opportunities for our...
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Revitalizing the demand for reparations
by Amadi Ajamu The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM’s) re-igniting of the reparations movement has raised the stakes to decisive governmental direct action. The 15 member regional bloc of nations...
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Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre’s ‘Between me and the other world’
Review by Wanda Sabir With the close of the year drawing near, I’d like to reflect on the thematic nuances seen this fall season regarding Blackness, its connotation a tension which never quite seems...
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Harriet Tubman Christmas play ‘Go Tell It’ is back: an interview wit’...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR One of the most informative ways that a family can celebrate the so-called holiday season without celebrating the Roman fertility holiday Saturnalia, which...
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Our historical obligation: to pursue the total liberation of all oppressed...
by Kijana Tashiri Askari “Whereas slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States, is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens...
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Mary Ellen Pleasant, California’s Mother of Civil Rights, and her partner...
Born a slave, Mary Ellen Pleasant was in her mid-30s when she sailed to California in 1852, initially passing as white. After amassing her fortune and working with John Brown to expand the...
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Inside a CCA private prison: Two slaves for the price of one, Part Three
The People vs. CCA by Anthony Robinson Jr. “How frightening it is to see people choose not to see what’s in front of them.” – Stuart Grassian, Massachusetts psychiatrist Corrections Corporation of...
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White terrorist slays nine in Charleston church founded by Denmark Vesey on...
Democracy Now! reports, “Around 5:30 a.m. this morning (June 27), Bree Newsome climbed to the top of the flagpole flying the Confederate battle flag on the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol,...
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Bay Area Black doctor plans to repatriate to South Africa
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Valrey Now that we are in the last two years of the Obama dream, people are starting to wake up to the fact that it doesn’t matter what color the face of the...
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Working as intended in Dallas and beyond: The inextricably wound threads of...
Art: Rilo Harris by Johnny Islamabad Everybody knows what happened last week. Everybody knows: the streetside roadrage execution of Delrawn Small under the indifferent glare of a Brooklyn stoplight on...
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Get ready! The Millions for Prisoners Human Rights March on Washington is...
Wanda Sabir interviews Robert King, Albert Woodfox and Malik Rahim on Wanda’s Picks radio show Wanda Sabir: Good morning and welcome to Wanda’s Picks, a Black arts and culture program with the African...
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Black August: The power of prisoner-led organizing
Thousands came to pay their respects to one of the most influential imprisoned writers ever, George Jackson, at his funeral in Oakland on Aug. 28, 1971, a week after his assassination at San Quentin on...
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Black August 2020: All eyes on us to save our youth
“Black August” – Art: Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, 264847, Pendleton Correctional Facility, G-20-2C, 4490 W. Reformatory Road, Pendleton, IN 46064 by Comrade Bobby Dixon, Minister of Justice of NABPP-PC...
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Marxists, Smarxists: Black Lives Still Matter
. by Kevin Seraaj, J.D., M.Div., Publisher, Orlando Advocate Black lives matter. The inability of some to accept these words has completely divided the nation. The statement “Black lives matter” is...
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A Black storyteller chronicles the history of slavery and freedom
This painting by William Edouard Scott in the Library of Congress is titled “Frederick Douglass Appealing to President Lincoln and His Cabinet to Enlist Negroes.” by Fred Jordan, African American...
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