PHANTOM PAIN BLUES a young boy now missing one hand waves his bandaged stump and managing a smile says “my hand is in heaven it beat me there” a young girl still wincing tries to […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 18 in Detroit at the St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, five veteran women organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Northern Student Movement, spoke on the significance […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Al-Aqsa Storm began on October 7, 2023, the corporate and government-controlled media in the United States and European countries utilized their resources to justify the Israeli genocidal assaults on the […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe 19th century theorist and educator Edward Wilmont Blyden (1832-1912) viewed the struggle for African redemption as being comparable to the Zionist movement, then in its infancy. As the founders of the World […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Even though the United States government, in its propaganda during World War II, suggested that there would be greater freedoms for African Americans in the wake of the defeat of European fascism […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe “Up in French Indochina, those little peasants, rice-growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen, you remember Dien Bien Phu! The same thing happened in Algeria, […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Red Army seized control of Berlin in early May 1945 hoisting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building within the besieged city, jubilations erupted across Europe and around the world. […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe In the aftermath of the First Imperialist War [World War I], African Americans and people of African descent around the world escalated their movements to end colonial domination, legalized segregation and the […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in 1876, the monarchy in Belgium initiated a massive campaign to fully conquer the Congo where tremendous wealth existed in natural resources and labor power. King Leopold I pursued the riches […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo In the revolution I found the liberation that I needed and that meant so much to me – a Nicaraguan lesbian commenting on the significance of the Sandinista revolution in 1984 interview. […]
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