Author: Colby Byrd

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‘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 […]
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In the U.S.

Slaying the hydra: an analysis of Love, Death & Robots’ ‘400 Boys’

May 20, 2025 Colby Byrd
The people’s struggle against colonialism and imperialism is a struggle of epic proportions, wherever it takes place. No liberation struggle is waged without involving all aspects of society. Bridges once burned due to the symptoms […]
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Around the world

From Sankara to Traoré: continuing the legacy of anti-imperialist revolution in Burkina Faso

May 13, 2025 Colby Byrd
Right now, Burkina Faso sits again on the frontlines against U.S./Western imperialism.  Prior to 2022, Burkina Faso was completely under the control of French neocolonial rule and oppression. The Burkinabe government — previously under the […]
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Around the world

Fifty years after reunification, Vietnam’s struggle still inspires

April 30, 2025 Colby Byrd
On April 30, 1975, the People’s Army of Vietnam broke down the gate of the U.S. Embassy in what is now Ho Chi Minh City. Formerly Saigon, this city was the last stronghold of the […]