When I arrived in Rhodesia, 1968 had already been a momentous year in the United States. U.S. setbacks in Vietnam had led Lyndon Johnson to announce his withdrawal from the 1968 presidential campaign. Days later, on April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 5. Meanwhile, Black Power activists in the United States, led by young Blacks like me, were urging Black Americans to be proud of our African heritage. I felt lucky to be in Africa.
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Black majority rule,
Black newspaper,
Black Panther Party,
Black Power,
JoNina Abron,
Old Mutare,
Rev. Shirley DeWolf,
Rhodesia,
Shona,
ZANU-Patriotic Front,
Zimbabwe
In an effort to help reverse the decline of San Francisco’s African-American population by recognizing its unique cultural and artistic identity, the Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution urging the Department of Public Works to rename Eddy Street between Laguna and Divisadero to Marcus Garvey Way as well as proclaim Aug. 17 Marcus Garvey Day in San Francisco. The resolution was unanimously approved on Nov. 26, 2007.
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Chris Brizzard,
Daniel Landry,
Erris Edgerly,
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self-love,
self-pride,
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi,
the Black population,
the Black Renaissance,
the Board of Supervisors,
the Department of Public Works,
the Fillmore Heritage Center
In a country where racism is still alive, it is important for White America not only to see, but also to understand Black America’s story as well. For too long only a partial testament has been given to the adversity that affects millions of our people on a daily basis. Someone should take the time to find the “why.” It is this question that millions of people never ask. Did CNN’s “Black in America” answer it?
The Prisoners of Conscience Committee delegation from the United States returned recently from a fact-finding mission in El Salvador. We were in three cities – San Salvador, Suchitoto and Sansonate – and we talked to former combatants, government officials, union leaders, community leaders, members of street organizations, former political prisoners and more. One of my favorite groups that we met was Radio Zurda, a collective of youth who do a political radio show heard in El Salvador and Honduras, targeted towards a youth audience.
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Black Panther Party,
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El Salvador,
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Honduras,
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Minister of Information JR,
Prisoners of Conscience Committee,
Radio Zurda,
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San Salvador,
Sansonate,
Suchitoto
The U.N. Human Rights Council concluded, “Thousands of Black families would continue to suffer displacement and homelessness if the demolition of 4,500 public housing units is not halted. … We therefore call on the Federal Government (U.S.) and state and local authorities to immediately halt the demolitions of public housing in New Orleans.”
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Advocates for Environmental Human Rights,
de facto segregation,
displacement,
Gay McDougall,
homelessness,
Jeff R. Crump,
John Burl Smith,
Katrina,
Miloon Kothari,
Monique Harden,
Project for a New American Century,
public housing demolition,
racism,
U.N. Human Rights Council,
United Nations
Over the last year, there have been hundreds of stories in the local and national media accusing young men from Your Black Muslim Bakery of the murder of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey. Yet with all that coverage, we have not heard Yusuf Bey IV himself, successor to the Bakery’s founder, address these accusations.
After the death of Chauncey Bailey, some journalists created an investigative collaborative called the Chauncey Bailey Project – known in the Black community as the Anti-Muslim Bakery Police Project – which seems to be a vehicle for digging up real and imaginary dirt on Your Black Muslim Bakery and the Bey family.
At the Women’s Building on June 24 are Kimma Walker (left) and her daughter, Terrain Dandridge of the New Jersey 4, who had just been released from prison in New York the day before the event. Dr. Angela Davis (right) smiles as she reads a letter of support written to the NJ4 with other allies [...]
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Chenese Loyal,
Dwayne Buckle,
Dyke March,
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Khamysha Coates,
Kimma Walker,
Lania Daniels,
LGBQT,
New Jersey 4,
Patreese Johnson,
Quandra Chaffers,
racism,
Renata Hill,
Terrain Dandridge,
Venice Brown,
wrongfully incarcerate
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