Spear staff

On June 10, 2010, the trial of Johannes Mehserle, former Bay Area Transit (BART) cop, opened in Los Angeles. Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant.

On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, the Oakland branch of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) hosted a forum entitled “Oakland’s Health Disparities in Black and White.”

Last year, in Washington, DC, the first North American Regional Conference of the African Socialist International (ASI) was held on African Liberation Day (ALD)...

WASHINGTON, DC — This is a call to the leadership and general membership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) as well as our allies and supporters to mobilize the African working class and all freedom-loving peoples to come to Washington, DC for the 5th Congress of our Party scheduled from July 10-14, 2010.

HOUSTON-During the March 14 “Time to Till” event, members of Houston’s All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) came with shovels, tillers, hoes, rakes, and an assortment of other garden tools. The Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-Op was only an idea of its organizers.

Today we remember our slain comrade, Maurice Rupert Bishop, who was born May 29, 1944.

The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations must be given maximum support by African people and especially activists, because it has been a critical development in our movement since the 1960s.

Since Sunday May 23 citizens of Kingston, Jamaica neighborhood, Tivoli Gardens, have been waging a fierce struggle against U.S. attempts to extradite a man the governments of Jamaica and U.S. have labeled one of the “world’s most dangerous narcotics kingpins.”

On Saturday, May 29th, African Socialist International Chairman Omali Yeshitela will speak in Atlanta, GA at the "National Black Power Convention 2010", the theme...