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World News & Views

The latest from the Black community worldwide.

CORE Nigeria: “We will fight for our total liberation”

“The genie of resistance is out of the bottle.” Exploited and oppressed Nigerian masses have had enough of the illegitimate regime of retired Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari wielding a constant whip of brutality. The Nigerian people are not going quietly up the road to liberation.

Brazil-Unreported: Rio police kill 434 people in first 3 months of 2019

Data show that 434 people died from police confrontations during the first three months of 2019. It’s the highest number of deaths resulting from police interventions in the past 20 years.

COINTELPRO, soccer and the water in our eyes

Multi-award winning photojournalist, Malaika Kambon, in 2004 detailed the crushing evidence of capitalist imperialist monster maneuvers the U.S. used then, bringing current seven years hence the rooted reality of Haiti’s and Iraq’s ongoing struggles today.

Different summit, same story for the polluters and poor at global climate meeting

The business-as-usual, richest, whitest COP26 ever will undoubtedly bring more of the same blah, blah, blah in unmet promises and continued genocide against The People.

STEM Frenzy: Empowering youth to build a better world

by Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with...

Kwame ‘Beans’ Shakur: Call to Action for National Unification

“We have to start acting like a Nation instead of just a movement and an organization. We need to free these Political Prisoners. We’re steadily using these terms,” Shakur explained

Why privatize the Shipyard?

I say stop the privatization of the Hunters Point Shipyard before we have more corruption to clean up than toxics.

Mrs. Sadie Williams @100, still going strong

Mrs. Sadie Williams celebrates a century of life surrounded by loved ones.

UN holds racism hearings in US

What’s different is you’re going to hear the voices of the people. You don’t usually hear the voice of the people.

Israeli political cops beat prize-winning Gazan journalist

“His homeland, Gaza, is surrounded, starved, attacked, forgotten. He is a profoundly humane witness to one of the great injustices of our time. He is the voice of the voiceless.”

Tortured Sudanese journalist Sami Al-Hajj released after 7 years in Guantanamo

Sami Al-Hajj was released after spending more than seven years in U.S. custody. He was released without ever being prosecuted.

West Coast ports shut on May Day

In San Francisco, more than a thousand people marched from Local 10’s union hall, led by the Local 10 Drill Team, along the Embarcadero where the 1934 Big Strike took place.

US Navy aims its big guns at Latin America

While Washington assures that its sole interest in the region is combating “new threats” – terrorism, drug trafficking and the Maras gangs of Central America – Latin American people often see it as the pursuit of “imperialist” interests dictated by energy needs.

Viequenses support Barack Obama

Vieques is an exquisite white-sand-trimmed island, a jewel in the blue Caribbean, where the 10,000 Viequenses fight valiantly for cleanup of massive contamination left by the U.S. Navy.

Haitians demand food

Supposedly, the UN occupation and the 2006 election had allowed Haitians to forget that its democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, had been overthrown in a violent coup. The massive protest over food prices has shattered this facade.

Cuba: If change is in the air, does prosperity lie ahead?

35 percent of the National Assembly members are Black, up from 33 percent in 2003 and 28 percent in 1998. Forty-three percent of the National Assembly members are women, making Cuba one of the worlds’ leaders in the percentage of women in representative government.