By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday afternoon February 21, 1965, Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) was gunned down as he stood at the podium of the Audubon Ballroom to address hundreds of people attending […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 4, 1964, Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) gave an interview with Philadelphia talk show host Joe Rainey over W-DAS where he discussed various aspects of his evolving worldview influenced by […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe It has been 80 years since the French military authorities gunned down hundreds of African troops from Senegal during World War II. On this anniversary of the incident, President Emmanuel Macron finally […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe September 18, 1961, was a significant day in the struggle surrounding the African liberation movements aimed at ending colonialism on that continent. United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and the entire crew […]
Preview (opens in a new tab) LANGUAGE LAND-MINES Exonym : noun. A name for a place or group of people that is only used outside that place or group. To Thomas Sankara and all those […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Mali was one of those states which declared its sovereignty from France under the leadership of President Modibo Keita, a Pan-Africanist who developed close ties with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and […]
PAN AFRICAN HEARTBEAT To all the freedom fighters who knew the Alliance of Sahel States would see the light of day To the legacy of our ancestors George Padmore, Dorothy Padmore , Kwame Nkrumah and […]
By Julia Wright As freedom fighters who have seen many wars from Vietnam to Algeria, from Palestine to Kanaky, we do not take the good news that comes our way lightly. First, because we fought […]
FROM ZERO TO INFINITY ” There is nobody to watch the kitten playing with the willow tip “ Haiku by Richard Wright in algebra class when we were children we always marveled that minus […]
A PAN ABOLITIONIST PRAYER FOR LEONARD PELTIER “The only accounts we owe are to our children, the ancestors and those not yet born” -Amilcar Cabral whom I was honored to meet in Accra just as […]
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