By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 1 By 1860, the dominant industry within southern agriculture was cotton production which utilized the unpaid labor of Africans on lands which were stolen from the […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 16 in the United States, the 94th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be commemorated as a federal holiday. Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Film: Till Director: Chinonye Chukwu Producers: Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly, Frederick Zollo Writers: Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp Star Actors: Danielle Deadwyler (Mamie Till-Bradley), Jalyn […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 11, 2022 Contact: Clennon L. King AugustineMonica MediaWorks 207.450.3585 clennon@augustinemonica.com Albany, Georgia….Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, whose grassroots organizing of unregistered Black voters sent shock waves through the segregated South, and kickstarted […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On August 16, 2018, Aretha Franklin, popularly known as the “Queen of Soul”, passed away at her home in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 76. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on March […]
By Julia Wright Last month, another chapter of U.S domination in Africa was written, a chapter of such hubris and arrogance towards independent and sovereign African countries that we begin to wonder if there is […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the early 1980s, the prison population in the United States has grown exponentially with African Americans, Latin Americans and other working class people making up the majority of those incarcerated in […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe As far back in history as the period of enslavement of African people in North America, resistance and rebellion has been met with retaliatory repression from the ruling interests. Freedom fighters such […]
By Gerry Scoppettuolo On a hot dusty day in September 1949, 34-year-old Moranda Smith strode bravely down the main street of Apopka, Florida. The Klan was after her and she knew it. The night before, […]
By Terri Kay On July 12, 2022 the People’s Organization for Progress, along with other activists and allies, commemorated the 55th anniversary of the Newark Rebellion on Springfield Ave at a triangle plot of […]
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