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Women of the Congo decry U.S. neocolonialism
The following letter was delivered to Ambassador Carson on March 20. It is signed by Diaspora Congolese women in the U.S., U.K., Belgium, France and South Africa. Ambassador Johnnie Carson Outgoing...
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Cynthia McKinney tours Cali wit’ her new book ‘Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom’
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Six term congresswoman, ‘08 Green Party presidential candidate and international peace activist Cynthia McKinney has been that rare voice in the halls of the...
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Wanda’s Picks for May 2013
by Wanda Sabir Wilfred Batin, Wanda’s nephew, at the Honor Roll Tribute in February at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco – Photo: Wanda Sabir We remember Richie Havens, folk singer and activist who made...
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‘The Black Woman Is God’ – Part II
Closing reception for ‘The Black Woman Is God’ exhibit is Thursday, May 30, 6 p.m., in the Sargent Johnson Gallery, African-American Arts and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton St., San Francisco by Malaika H...
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Congo: The UN Combat Intervention Brigade is not there to combat resource theft
by Ann Garrison KPFA Evening News June 22, 2013 http://www.anngarrison.com/sites/default/files/mp3/Congo-UN-Combat-Intervention-Brigade-KPFA-06-22-2013.mp3 KPFA Evening News Anchor Cameron Jones: On...
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Stand behind striking prisoners, from Palestine to California
by IJAN In Palestine, demonstrations of solidarity with prisoners are large and frequent. Even children organize to demand freedom for their parents – and their siblings, as young children are often...
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Solidarity from Chiapas with California prison hunger strike
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, July 30, 2013 – From the United States, the heart of the empire that imposes its laws on the entire planet, thousands of voices of the most scorned and forgotten people...
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Cynthia McKinney: The world needs peace – but not a Pax Americana
by Cynthia McKinney Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who last week completed a peace mission to Syria along with former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others, delivered the...
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Fatherhood: Enjoying the journey
by Morris Turner Every day is a blessing and every moment is an opportunity to learn, grow and be better than we were yesterday. This goes for fathers as well as their children, and the most important...
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Letter to my Rwandan, Ugandan and Congolese brothers and sisters celebrating...
by B.K. Kumbi Why should we have faith and hope? Rwanda’s M23 has finally been defeated in DR Congo, but what are we to make of DR Congo negotiating with M23, not Rwanda’s Kagame and Uganda’s Museveni?...
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Mandela, pacifist or rebel?
by Diana Cariboni Montevideo (IPS) – Perhaps it’s a false contradiction. But today there are many who stress the pacifist message with which South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) emerged from...
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Marcus Garvey, the African Union, the African Diaspora
by Shaka Barak, President, The Marcus Garvey Institute In the year 2014, as we recognize this as the centennial year of the Jamaican, Caribbean born Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s (born Aug. 17,...
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Rwanda: Absolute power at any price
Introduction Gen. Paul Kagame ordered the shooting down of the plane in which President Habyarimana and President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, French citizens, and all others on board were killed on...
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Thousands attend funeral of Michael Brown
Police killing of African American youth galvanized the struggle against racism in the United States by Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire These photos were taken at Michael Brown’s funeral, held...
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Uncle Bobby in Ferguson, supporting the most fearless youth of our generation
by JR Valrey, The People’s Minister of Information Of all the hundreds of police murders of young Black men in recent years, the two that sparked the strongest resistance and the largest rebellions...
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Wanda’s Picks for September 2014
by Wanda Sabir Art for Change Through their art, William Rhodes helped his students at Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in Bayview Hunters Point connect with children in South Africa. Congratulations...
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Et tu, Brute? Haiti’s betrayal by Latin America
by Dady Chery Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff reviews U.N. troops in Haiti. – Photo: Blog do Planalto For the 10th year since the forcible removal of elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
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Wanda’s Picks for January 2015
by Wanda Sabir Happy New Year! Happy Birthday to my granddaughter Brianna, niece Wilda and friend Fred T. I am still smiling about America’s new relationship with Cuba and the freed Cuban 5. If you are...
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Wanda’s Picks for April 2015
by Wanda Sabir Happy Spring Season … Happy Jazz Appreciation Month, National Library Week, Poetry Month. ‘Tales of the Grim Sleeper’ on serial murders in South LA over 25 years, 250 Black women missing...
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ACLU: America’s obsession with locking up Black men led directly to death of...
by Nick Chiles “Everybody loved him,” Walter Scott’s mother told reporters. “He was the most outgoing out of all of us. He knew everybody,” his older brother said. If America hadn’t become a nation...
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