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Los Angeles Black August: putting knowledge into action

September 1, 2023 John Parker
In Los Angeles, the Black Alliance for Peace held a Black August teach-in at Book Club HQ with the participation of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party and the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice. Political […]
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Knocking out white supremacy in Montgomery, Alabama

August 17, 2023 Stephen Millies
A righteous fightback in the spirit of Rosa Parks The whole world saw Black people successfully defend themselves against a drunken white mob on Aug. 5 in Montgomery, Alabama. Damien Pickett, a Black co-captain on […]
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A racist scab

July 26, 2023 Stephen Millies
Jason Aldean — whose music video “Try That in a Small Town” is an incitement to racist violence — was born in Macon, Georgia. Macon isn’t a small town, but it has a terrible racist […]
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The family statement honoring Mutulu’s life and legacy

July 22, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha
Dr. Mutulu Shakur, a highly esteemed acupuncturist, healer, revolutionary, and leader in the Black liberation movement, peacefully passed away on Friday, July 7, 2023 at 72 years old. He courageously battled multiple myeloma, a blood […]
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Slavery and the fourth of you lie

July 4, 2023 Stephen Millies
The Declaration of Independence is Philadelphia’s proudest claim to fame. It was written by the Virginia slave master and future U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, who sold his own flesh and blood — the product of […]
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Galveston reenacts Juneteenth

June 23, 2023 David Card
On June 19 in Galveston, Texas, a Juneteenth reenactment march to the county courthouse started at Reedy Chapel AME Church. Galveston is the birthplace of Juneteenth, which celebrates the beginning of the enforcement of the […]
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‘What do we want? Reparations!’: Celebrating Juneteenth in Newark, N.J.

June 21, 2023 Stephen Millies
Over a hundred people rallied on Juneteenth in Newark, New Jersey, to demand reparations. The June 19 march and rally was organized by the People’s Organization for Progress. People gathered at Market and Springfield avenues. […]
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Juneteenth, reparations and the legacy of Tulsa

June 19, 2023 John Parker
On June 19, 1865, the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas, to end slavery there. It has become the symbolic date for the ending of slavery in the United States. After the Emancipation Proclamation officially […]
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The Propaganda of History

June 19, 2023 W.E.B. DuBois
In 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction in America. This is an excerpt from the final chapter,  “The Propaganda of History,” on the way Reconstruction was being studied and taught at the time. How […]
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They stole us, they sold us, they owe us: Reparations must be paid!

June 7, 2023 Stephen Millies
The wealthy and powerful in New York are trying to sideline a state reparations bill. To protest and stop this sabotage, a powerful news conference was held in front of the African Burial Ground in […]