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  Editors Note: The Drum and Spear – Letters to the Editor page inside The Burning Spear newspaper is nearly as old as The Spear...

TAMPA, FL When 63-year-old Arthur Green Jr., a.k.a Pops, pulled his truck over to the side of the road on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, he needed medical help. Instead, the police snatched him from his vehicle, dragged him to the ground and handcuffed him in the middle of the street where he died.

  LONDON—On November 21, 2013, demonstrations were initiated at Independence Square in the city of Kiev, the Ukraine capitol that has up to now resulted...

The following interview was conducted on March 23, 2014 on Africa Live on the Uhuru Radio Network. In it, Chairman Omali Yeshitela tells host Dedan Sankara about his relationship with Chokwe Lumumba and his thoughts on his death and his significance.

As the imperialist crisis grows in the face of worldwide resistance, African people want to know, "Who are we? What is our identity? What is the African nation and what is our role in it?"

On November 25, 2013, the battered and mutilated black body of 28-year-old Alfred Wright was found by family and friends who were searching in a wooded area of Hemphill, Texas. This adds to the lengthy list of young Africans recently murdered or suspected to have been murdered by either police or white nationalist thugs.