2020 January
Monthly Archives: January 2020
Foul murder of another nation’s hero, an American disgrace
When the U.S. murders a military strategist more successful than their own grotesquely over-armed losers, Pentagon apologists pretend that he (and not they) is the bloodthirsty killer spreading chaos throughout the Middle East.
Filming injustice in Ohio’s prisons: Jason Goudlock’s story
Jason Goudlock has become a crusader against Ohio’s unjust sentencing guidelines and is likely to continue even if it means another “flop” and more time behind bars.
Panther community service programs grow
by Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson
A key strategy of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party
(NABPP), from its inception, has been to empower the oppressed communities
through the...
Afrophobia in Azania: What’s the word?
We must welcome our brothers and sisters from every corner of Africa. This increasingly Pan-African climate must be used to call for one socialist Africa and the total destruction of settler capitalism and neo-colonialism.
#WritingWhileBlack: Black conventions and doing for it ourselves
How Black authors and publishers are empowering our communities through Black events, anthologies and Black takeovers of white dominated genres.
by Sumiko Saulson
“But I’m...
Imam Jamil Al-Amin denied cataract surgery – Call Bureau of Prisons
We have been informed by Imam Jamil (H. Rap Brown) that he is suffering from cataracts and is being denied immediate treatment to relieve him of this burden. Imam Jamil is 75 years old and has been incarcerated for going on 20 years even though the facts of his case prove his innocence.
Political prisoner Dr. Mutulu Shakur, 69, diagnosed with bone marrow cancer
We are asking his comrades and supporters to give money for medical, legal defense, commissary and more. The quickest way to send financial support is through the Family and Friends of Mutulu Shakur PayPal (go to mutulushakur.com and click on the red and white DONATE button in the right sidebar if this direct link doesn’t work).
The gang injunctions are over; community shifts its sights toward the SFPD gang database
As San Franciscans rang in the new year, the civil gang injunctions plaguing the Mission, Bayview Hunters Point, Visitation Valley and the Fillmore-Western Addition for more than a decade finally came to an end.
Harriet as Igbo
by Biko Agozino
This is not a spoiler. “Harriet” is a film without spoilers because the audience already can tell how the movie was going...
Revolutionary Jesus
To understand the story of Jesus is to understand that he lived in a time when there was class warfare between the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, the oppressor and the oppressed, much like it is today.