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 […]
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 The Executive Committee, Black Workers for Justice And thank you for your patience and support today. It is with great sadness and profound loss that we announce the passing of our exemplary revolutionary warrior […]
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 Abayomi Azikiwe During the late 1960s, Mumia Abu-Jamal became a youth activist in the city of Philadelphia where a succession of racist police chiefs engaged in widespread abuse against the African American community. Philadelphia […]
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 Abayomi Azikiwe During the 1970s, amid a draconian counter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against African American organizations throughout the United States, a cadre of activists in New York […]
Press release August 8, 2022 CONTACTS: Brad Thomson, Attorney, People’s Law Office 1180 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642 Nyeusi Jami, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), Atlanta Coordinator nyeusi.jami@protonmail.com Today, on Dr. Shakur’s 72nd birthday, […]
By David Sole The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched several, coordinated, pre-dawn raids on the offices of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and its Uhuru Movement affiliate in St. Petersburg, Florida and St. […]
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