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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 20, 2016,  that there would be no charges filed in the death of African teen Kendrick Johnson.

The DOJ stated that they “found insufficient evidence to support federal criminal charges."

Kendrick was murdered and his body later found in Lowndes High School gym in Valdosta, GA on January 11, 2013.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL––Florida prosecutors charged officer Nouman Raja, a Southeast Asian, with manslaughter on June 1, 2016 for shooting Corey Jones, an African man on October 18, 2016.

Corey pulled over on the off ramp of I-95 after having car trouble when Raja pulled up in an unmarked vehicle.

Corey was outside of his vehicle and on the phone with a tow truck company. The audio from the phone conversation recorded the whole incident.

ST. LOUIS, MO—The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and Uhuru Movement were among the enthusiastic participants in the June 5 and 6th National Black Political Leadership Conference held in this city by the Universal African People’s Organization (UAPO). 

UAPO is headed by its President General Zaki Baruti, a long-time organizer, activist and influential leader in the St. Louis area and a member of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BIBC).

BIRMINGHAM, England––The African People’s Socialist Party was first in Birmingham in 1983. We traveled there as part of a European and United Kingdom-wide tour to promote the outcome of the World Tribunal on Reparations for black People in the U.S. that was held by our movement in Brooklyn, New York in November 1982.

When we went to Birmingham, we went as African Internationalists, not Pan-Africanists. Nevertheless, we thought it possible to work with self-declared Pan-Africanists despite our ideological differences.

LOS ANGELES, CA––I had the profound honor of participating in the California Statewide Conference of the Association of Raza Educators (ARE) at the Santee Education Complex on May 21, 2016.

Founded by Union del Barrio, a Mexican liberation organization with which our Party has had a very close fraternal relationship for more than 30 years, ARE is comprised of public and charter school educators, university professors, students and community allies committed to using education as a tool for liberation.

U.S president Barack Hussein Obama endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in a web video that Clinton released on her YouTube channel on Thursday, June 9, 2016.

He said in the video “I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.”

U.S president Obama says this only eight years after saying Clinton wasn't right for the position. An Obama campaign ad from 2008 says, “She'll say anything and change nothing.”

Beaumont, TX––Another African was stopped, harassed, and beaten by the police, this time for allegedly shoplifting.

DeMarcus Brown and his father, Greg Brown, were shopping at a local Walmart on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 when he was accosted by police.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL––The St. Pete branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), as forewarned, initiated one of a battery of protests in resistance to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department’s drowning murder of three teenage African girls––Dominique Battle (16), Ashaunti Butler (15) and La’Niyah Miller (15).

This direct action was ignited at a private cocktail party and white nationalist electoral fundraiser in the white enclave of Clearwater, FL for senate nominee David Jolly––hosted by none other than the infamous sheriff Bob Gualtieri.

"I heard about five shots, a pause, and then two more shots. When I heard the sirens I came out to see what was going on." said Ronn Greene of Mobile, Alabama, a witness at the scene of yet another unarmed African teen gunned down by police.

The victim, 18-year-old Michael Moore, died at the hospital.

Michael was shot multiple times Wednesday, June 15th in what would be considered a routine traffic stop for white people.

For the colonized African being held hostage in the U.S., however, being killed by the State is the routine.