By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday September 21, 2025, a capacity audience gathered at Trinosophes Hall on Gratiot Avenue near Detroit’s Eastern Market to honor six decades of publishing by an independent African American institution […]
By The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand under its weight…” – […]
GRAVE-LORN – A POEM FOR RICHARD WRIGHT’S 117 BIRTHDAY Greetings Folks, September 4th was the 117th birthday of my father. I wrote the poem below for him. This year is also the 80th year of […]
By People’s Organization for Progress The 16th annual commemoration of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion will be held today, Thursday, August 21, 2025, 5:00 pm at Nat Turner Park, 171 Muhammad Ali Avenue in Newark, […]
By bro Zayid Muhammad Long live the revolutionary spirits of George and Jonathan Jackson, the courageous revolutionary cornerstones of this hot time we call Black August…a time marking some of our ugliest oppression and repression, a time […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the 1960s, the city of Cleveland, Ohio was at the center of several political trends emerging within the African American community nationwide. Its burgeoning African American working-class population, many of whom […]
By People’s Organization for Progress (POP) The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) will have a 1967 Newark Rebellion Commemoration March And Rally on the 58th anniversary of the uprising, Saturday, July 12, 2025, 12:00 noon […]
By People’s Organization for Progress (POP) PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 973 801-0001 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Today, on the Juneteenth holiday to celebrate the […]
“It is the 80th anniversary of the publication of “Black Boy”. To honor its author whose ashes were interred in 1960 in the French cemetery of Pere Lachaise, Paris, a Wright aficionado who is also […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Dr. Rene Lichtman, 87, took his last breath on January 28, 2025, yet his legacy remains very much alive in Detroit and across the United States. Born in Paris, France in 1937, […]
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