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About two weeks ago, African students were threatened by school administration at Gibbs High School as an attack was placed on African culture.

My friend Jelani was walking through the school halls at when a school administrator and a resource (police) officer stopped her and ordered that she removed her African headwrap.

Puzzled, Jelani asked why, to which they responded that her African headwrap was a violation of the school dress code.

The presence of the police officer intimidated Jelani, so she followed the order and went to bathroom to take her headwrap off. She then called the African National Women’s Organization (ANWO) to inform them of the incident, to which they told her to stay strong and put her headwrap back on.

It has been one week since the body of Ferguson, Mo. activist Darren Seals was found in a burning car with a bullet hole in his head. With everyday that goes by, we are hearing less and less  about his horrific murder.

Since the murder of Mike Brown on August 9, 2014, there has been a string of six murdered activists in the last two years: Darnell Robinson, Antonio Jones, Deandre Joshua, Terrell Beasley, Vinne Cascella, and Darren Seals.

Prisoners across the U.S. went on strike on September 9th, The 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. The strike took place in 24 states and about 40-50 prisons were involved.

Africans from Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, California and St. Louis will be convening on Ground Zero of the resurgence of the black liberation struggle, Ferguson, MO, on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th, for the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s (InPDUM) 25th Anniversary Convention: "Continuing the Black Struggle for Self-Determination: The task at hand."

The Convention will be held at the Greater St. Marks Church where we will organize and strategize towards gaining true self-determination as one African people.

There is no question that revolution is the ONLY solution for our freedom. There will be various workshops to provide our people with critical skills to build and organize towards revolution in our own communities.

Uhuru Comrades, sisters and brothers. As the President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), I am calling on you to attend the historic 25th Anniversary Convention of InPDUM which will take place on September 17 and 18, 2016 at St. Mark Church 9950 Glen Owen Dr., Ferguson, MO 63136

InPDUM was founded in 1991 under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). Our trajectory is a revolutionary trajectory with the objective to win our freedom. No other organization has dedicated their existence to the unification and liberation of all Africans across the globe. We recognize that self-determination is the highest form of democracy, which has been stolen from us by the ruling class.

This call is being made with the most serious sense of urgency. The struggle of the 60s continues as the crisis of imperialism deepens. The imperialist (white ruling class) offers up Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as solutions, but neither of them offer up solutions for the black community.

Darren Seals, a well-known activist from Missouri who led week-long protests in Ferguson following the police murder of 18-year-old Mike Brown, was murdered on September 6, 2016.

According to police reports, the St. Louis police were called to a vehicle fire in the Riverside area of St. Louis just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday. When the fire was extinguished, they found Darren’s body inside the vehicle with a gunshot to his head.

Darren was 29 years old.

Journalist and author, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill gave an interview to Power 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast Club on August 3, 2016 to discuss current events, most notably the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Hill echoed what the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) has repeatedly stated during the entire election season when he said that Democrats are using the possibility of Donald Trump winning the election as a way to scare black voters into voting for Hillary Clinton. 

NICE, France––French police forced a Muslim woman to remove her traditional Muslim garment while she attempted to enjoy the beach on August 24th.

Photographs of the incident went viral online, sparking uproar.

These images show at least four cops––armed with pepper spray, batons and guns––confronting and standing over the woman––who has been identified as Siam––who was wearing a tunic, leggings and a head scarf, and relaxing on the shore at the town’s Promenade des Anglais.

Siam was forced to remove a blue long-sleeved garment. She was also given an on-the-spot fine and ordered to leave the beach.

Police have once again investigated themselves and found that they have committed no crime. This time, in reference to North Miami cop Jonathon Aledda, who shot an unarmed African, Charles Kinsey, in the leg on July 18th.

Charles was lying on his back with his hands up, begging for the cop not to shoot him when Aledda shot him anyway. Charles, a mental health therapist, was retrieving one of his patients, an autistic man from the middle of the street. The autistic man was sitting in the street playing with a toy truck.