Spear staff

FERGUSON, MO—August 9th  marks the two-year anniversary of the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown who was killed by Ferguson, MO Police Officer Darren Wilson. 

Witnesses stated that Mike Brown was shot eight times while his hands were in the air. His rotting body was then kept on the concrete for more than eight hours as an example to the Ferguson community of what the police will do if they disobey their orders. 

What the police did not expect in this suburb of St. Louis, MO was resistance from the African working class community. This powerful display of African Resistance on August 9, 2014 marks one of the critical dates in Black August.

PHILADELPHIA––On August 13 and 14, 2016, the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations will hold their preparatory conference, the “National Black Political Agenda for Self-determination” at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, PA.

Louisville, KY—An unidentified African woman was forced to walk into a courtroom without any pants, on July 29, 2016.

Cleveland, OH—The mother of Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice had this to say about the United States’ first Negro president, Barack Hussein Obama:

“President Barack Obama, I don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t know how you’re able to sleep at night. Just sleep and wake up and see that another murder has happened on behalf of the government. And nobody is getting any justice.”

Atlanta, GA—The African man that posted the video of Alton Sterling being shot and murdered by Baton Rouge police has been fired from his job.

Randallstown, MD––Baltimore County police murdered a 23-year-old African mother, Korryn Gaines, and shot her five-year-old son on August 1, 2016.

BRAZIL— The Brazilian government has upped its colonial violence against Africans in Rio de Janeiro since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) named the city as the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Olympics are set to begin on August 5, 2016.

DALLAS—At the tail end of a demonstration against police violence on July 7, 2016 in downtown Dallas, Texas gunshots rang out, police ran for cover and some of them fell to the ground, mortally wounded as pandemonium swept the streets. 

The Dallas protests centered around the July 5th caught-on-camera police murder of 37-year-old Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the caught-on-camera and narrated police murder of 32-year-old Philando Castile in a St. Paul, Minnesota suburb on July 6, 2016.

We were later to learn that an African, 26-year-old Micah Xavier Johnson, a Dallas resident would show the world that Africans too, are capable of having a military response to the military occupation of the African community by the militarized colonial violence of U.S. police agencies who are murdering our people in an effort of containment and terror.