Black August 2009: A story of African freedom fighters
by Kiilu Nyasha George Jackson Black August is a month of great significance for Africans throughout the Diaspora, but particularly here in the U.S. where it originated. “August,” as Mumia Abu-Jamal...
View ArticleLibya, getting it right: a revolutionary pan-African perspective
Interview with Gerald Perreira by Minister of Information JR broadcast March 9 on KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio gerald by Gerald A. Perreira Anti-Qaddafi forces threaten an African youth. – Photo: Goran...
View ArticleThe 40th anniversary of the assassination of George Jackson
by David Johnson I cannot begin to talk about Comrade without discussing my experiences, as our lives were entwined – in part by choice and the other the result of the common racist and twisted...
View Article‘Merritt College: Home of the Black Panther Party,’ an interview wit’...
by People’s Minister of Info JR Most people in California, especially in the Bay, do not know enough about the Black Panther Party, which was founded at Merritt College in Oakland in October of 1966 by...
View ArticleJonathan Jackson Jr.’s foreword to his Uncle George Jackson’s ‘Soledad...
Commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion by Jonathan Jackson Jr. Jonathan Jackson I was born eight and a half months after my father, Jonathan Jackson, was shot down...
View ArticleTwo tributes to Black Panther Field Marshal Richard Aoki
These tributes were written shortly after the death of Richard Aoki on March 15, 2009. Richard Aoki, an American revolutionary by Elbert “Big Man” Howard Elbert “Big Man” Howard and Richard Aoki, two...
View Article‘There is no turning back’: We salute a great freedom fighter – Comandante...
by Gerald A. Perreira Revolutionaries throughout the Americas and the Caribbean owe a great debt to Hugo Chavez. His selfless struggle for the advancement of the masses of poor and oppressed in...
View ArticleCelebrating the 75th birthday of Soledad Brother George Lester Jackson, Sept....
by Kiilu Nyasha “I have a plan. I will give and give and give of myself until it proves our making or my end.” – Black Panther Party Field Marshal George Jackson As we honor the 75th birthday of our...
View ArticleRe-Build: New Afrikan People’s Assembly
by Kwame ‘Beans’ Shakur, Co-Founder and Chairman of the New Afrikan Liberation Collective (NALC) Booker T. Washington Park Community Center in Terra Haute, IN, was originally founded in 1970 as the...
View ArticleSoledad uncensored: Racism and the hyper-policing of Black bodies, Part 2
Jonathan Jackson, 17, planned what’s come to be called the Marin Courthouse Slave Rebellion to free the Soledad Brothers, including his brother, George, by taking the judge hostage. But George was not...
View ArticleGeorge Jackson, 50 years later
This is the front page of The Black Panther newspaper on Aug. 28, 1971, the first issue of the weekly paper published after George Jackson had been murdered at San Quentin a week earlier. George was...
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