Author: Colby Byrd

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Through snow and racist threats: Baltimore to DC march demands reparations

December 11, 2025 Colby Byrd
Baltimore — On Dec. 5, Reverend Dr. Robert Turner of Empowerment Temple led his 39th monthly March for Reparations. The march, which Rev. Turner calls “40 for 40,” covered more than 40 miles, symbolizing the […]
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Venezuela

Trump’s oil theft is an act of war on the Caribbean

December 10, 2025 Colby Byrd
On Dec. 10, the fascist Trump carried out an act of outright piracy, seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker in that country’s own coastal waters. The ship was carrying crude bound for Cuba — two nations […]
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Fight racism

‘I will never be a slave again’: Afro-Venezuelans carry on revolutionary legacy

November 27, 2025 Colby Byrd
The following talk by Colby Byrd of the Peoples Power Assembly was given at the “No War on Venezuela” forum held in Baltimore on Nov. 22. The forum was sponsored by Peoples Power Assembly, Struggle […]
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Around the world

‘We can win this struggle’: Sankara’s message for today

October 14, 2025 Colby Byrd
“We can win this struggle if we choose to be architects and simply not bees.” – Thomas Sankara, Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests and savannas, 1986 We honor the life and revolutionary achievements […]
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In the U.S.

Baltimore needs more grocery stores not more police

September 23, 2025 Colby Byrd
It has been three months since the public killing of Baltimore Arabber Bilal “BJ” Abdullah by the Baltimore Police Department while he was experiencing a mental health crisis. Since then the city has only intensified […]
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In the U.S.

Baltimore dirtbike rides defy racist redlining, gentrification, and policing

August 28, 2025 Colby Byrd
This Black August, I want to honor a force of resistance in Baltimore City that continues to fight every week against police repression, builds community between generations, race, sexuality, gender, and age, creates spaces of […]
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In the U.S.

Baltimore attempts to shut down Black August celebration, community marches on

August 25, 2025 Colby Byrd
On Aug. 23, members of the People’s Power Assembly and Struggle for Socialism Party participated in a celebration of Black August at the Black owned bookstore, UrbanReads. Joined by the Pan-African Liberation Movement (PLM), Tendea […]
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Around the world

Reading Fanon in the age of ICE raids and Gaza genocide

July 12, 2025 Colby Byrd
“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the […]
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In the U.S.

Intersections & crossroads, from L.A. to Baltimore, the struggle for self-determination

June 24, 2025 Colby Byrd
Frantz Fanon says that all the native knows is that the colonizer, the oppressor, can come into their spaces to harass, beat, kidnap and kill them. And there is no one who comes to help, […]
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In the U.S.

More liberation themes in Love, Death, & Robots’ ‘400 Boys’

May 21, 2025 Colby Byrd
Part 1: An analysis of Love, Death & Robots’ ‘400 Boys’ The previous analysis of “400 Boys” was a breakdown of the show’s major story beats and imagery. The following focuses on smaller details. Don’t […]