Spear staff

Excerpt from Chairman’s speech given in February 1985, in Berkeley, California, a forum on “Does the Media Tell the Truth?” Featured in the pamphlet “The Road to Socialism is Painted Black”

On yesterday, December 22, 2018, The Burning Spear newspaper celebrated 50 years of continuous revolutionary print with a dynamic interview between the founder and first Editor-In-Chief, Chairman Omali Yeshitela and its current Editor-In-Chief, Akilé Anai surrounding the history and significance of The Spear at Akwaaba Hall in St. Petersburg, FL!

The most accurate historical record of the international African Liberation Movement since 1968, without contradiction, can only be found in the pages of The Burning Spear newspaper.

Black Power 96 has enlisted Themba Tshibanda to serve as its new Station Manager. WBPU 96.3 FM is a project of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund, whose mission is to defend the human and civil rights of the African community and to address the grave disparities in health, education and economic development faced by African people. 

Our Spear makes clear the position of the African People’s Socialist Party on the question of this colonial prison system.

On November 4, 2018, the French imperialists organized a referendum on whether New Caledonia would become independent from France or not.

It has been a while, for the most part, since the conversation of what is and is not “cultural appropriation” has taken over our minds and timelines.

On St. Louis’ north side, the effects of colonial exploitation and oppression has left its mark on the African community.

We all know of him.

Some of us have mental shrines of his yellow porous face, as we recall him being a significant figure of our childhood. Then there are others of us, who could care less about him, frankly annoyed of his existence because of the nonstop air time he would get in our households.