Daily Archives: September 10, 2015

Dedon Kamathi, a former Black Panther and Central Committee member of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, passed away at the end of August after suffering a stroke. I first spoke with Dedon way back in the 1980s when I was arranging to bring Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) to speak in my then hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii. Dedon was one of the first revolutionary Black internationalists I was to get to know and work with, and his loss hit me hard.

Mrs. Karima Al-Amin speaks on the attempt to execute her husband and legal client Imam Jamil Al-Amin through medical neglect while he is a political prisoner. He has a series of conditions that have not been treated adequately while he is unjustly imprisoned. Imam Jamil was formerly known as the revolutionary H. Rap Brown. His contributions to Black history are priceless. And his family and congregation need him back home in Georgia. Free Imam Jamil! Free ‘em all!

Now that the California Apartment Association (CAA) has blocked the implementation of renters’ protections, including rent control and just cause eviction protections, in Richmond, thousands of renters are at risk of being severely exploited with massive rent increases. Additionally, thousands more are now at risk of displacement and homelessness due to no-cause evictions.

One of the fathers of political Hip Hop on the West Coast is still at ‘em and getting ready to strike again with the Sept. 11 Guerrilla Funk release of “Pistol Politics.” The rapper Paris’ career has survived through three generations of political Hip Hop. Paris has been and still remains at the front line of revolutionary culture that actually makes it to average everyday people in the streets.