President Ramaphosa honors Jesse Jackson's legacy.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cuban President Fidel Castro meet in Havana in June, 1984
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The Jesse Jackson Campaign: National Oppression & Class Conflict

Civil Rights leader, two-time presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17, 2026, at the age of 84. In the days following his death, the corporate media […]
Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown at Hamilton Hall Columbia, 1968
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Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
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Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks Helped Ignite the Mass Civil Rights Movement

By Abayomi Azikiwe A pioneer in the struggle for equal opportunity and the eradication of racism, Claudette Colvin (1939-2026), joined the ancestors on January 13. Her contributions to the mass Civil Rights Movement came about […]
Amy Ashwood Garvey with Paul Robeson and Claudia Jones in England
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Pan-Africanism, Garveyism and Women’s Rights

By Abayomi Azikiwe Resistance to the enslavement and colonial domination over African people can be traced back to the wars and rebellions which took place on the continent as early as the 15th century. Even […]
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National Association of Colored Women
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Two Women From Memphis

  By Abayomi Azikiwe African women during the antebellum period in the United States were subjected to gross mistreatment and exploitation. Enslaved women endured oppression on three different levels: race-national origin, labor exploitation and gendered […]
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Black Writers and the Emancipatory Struggles of the Antebellum Period

By Abayomi Azikiwe Writing and public speaking were key elements in the movements to end African enslavement and other forms of national oppression in the United States. Going back to 1827, the first Black-owned English-language […]
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Rebellion and Revolution: From Haiti to the Louisiana German Coast (1791-1811)

By Abayomi Azikiwe A rebellion among the Africans of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in the Caribbean beginning in August 1791 would send shockwaves throughout the slaveholding classes throughout the entire Western Hemisphere. This uprising later evolved into […]