Spear staff

Republican candidate Donald Trump is set to be the Republican Party nominee for U.S. president. The candidacy is historic and unexpected for many.

As of May 31, 2016, Donald Trump has won enough state primary elections to secure the 1239 delegates needed to win the nomination if the delegates from those states vote according to the wishes of the people in the state during the Republican National Convention.

Walker County, TX––Symone Nicole Marshall was arrested and taken to Walker County Jail instead of a hospital after a car accident where her vehicle flipped over several times. Waker County sheriffs refused to privide her with medical treatment, even when she repeatedly requested it. Symone died in jail two weeks after her arrest.

Houston, TX––The Houston chapter of the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) will host its 4^th Annual “Juneteenth (Not Yet Uhuru): Freedom and Music Festival” on Saturday,  June 18, 2016 from 12-9pm at the 5^th Ward Community Garden, which is located at 3707 Brill Street.

U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama arrived in Riyadh on April 20, 2016 amidst crisis between the U.S. and Saudi Arabian governments.  

For decades, the sell-out Saudi royal family has been a key puppet of U.S. imperialism in the region.

The growing strength of the people’s resistance in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Afghanistan, Turkey, Yemen, Bahrain and in Saudi Arabia itself as well as the developing power of Iran are the primary causes that are forcing a rethink of relationship throughout the region.

Baltimore pig Edward Nero was found not guilty by the colonial judicial system on all charges in the murder of 25-year-old Freddie Gray on May 23, 2016.

Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson announced on April 25, 2016 that the city granted Tamir’s family $6 million in a settlement, yet maintains that they hold no responsibility in the child's death.

The city's official position as stated in the settlement terms is that young Tamir was at fault. This makes the them immune to any form of criminal prosecution.

Watch this powerful video featuring an excerpt of a speech Chairman Omali Yeshitela gave to the Black Power Organizing Conference in Philadelphia on May 31, 1998.

Ntokozo and friends went to eat at a restaurant in Cape Town, Occupied Azania (South Africa) where he refused to tip a white waitress.

Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), Omali Yeshitela is interviewed by Solomon of Critical Insight.

Chairman Omali contextually discusses the March 31st police murder by drowning of three African (black) girls after police illegally chased them and pushed them into a pond.