ATLANTA—For three days, from August 9 to 11, more than thirty thousand Africans suffered through nearly 100 degree scorching hot weather, many of them passing out from heat exhaustion, just to get an application for government subsidized housing.
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MANCHESTER, Conn – On Tuesday, August 3, 34-year-old African truck driver, Omar Thornton, shot eight of his white co-workers and bosses to death while wounding two others at a family owned Liquor Distributorship in Manchester, Connecticut. He used two 9mm pistols. Another weapon, a shot gun, was found in his car.
HOUSTON – On Saturday July 24 2010, about 200 people gathered at Emancipation Park in Houston’s 3rd Ward to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of People’s Party II Chairman, 21-year-old Carl B. Hampton.
As a Party that exemplified the unity of theory and action, the resolutions of the Congress covered a broad range of actions that will be taken up following the Congress.