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“No confidence in the U.S. government––Democratic or Republican, male or female, black or white! All power to the people! Black Power to the black community!” and “The people must win power with our own hands: Neither Jesse Jackson nor the Democratic party can bring power to the black working class” - from The Burning Spear newspaper, August 1984.

The words ring true today as they did in 1984 when this statement was made. Africans have no confidence in the U.S. government and only vote out of fear of the “white man’s Republican party” and the notion that Africans died and sacrificed for the right to vote with the perception that there are no other alternatives.

Mustafa Bearfield Jr., a 16-year-old teenager living in Huntsville, AL was on his way to school on June 21, 2016 when he was gunned down and murdered by white vigilante, Jonathan Scott only seconds away from his destination.

In Chicago, Illinois and East Chicago, Indiana, hundreds of poor working class Africans are being relocated by by the State after alarmingly high levels of lead in soil has been revealed. 

The extent of the lead contamination came as a shock to the African community, due to the dangers of the past presence of a huge former U.S.S. lead smelting plant being kept from the them. 

The African communities of Illinois and Chicago are well aware of the effects of lead poisoning which Flint’s Africans are struggling with. They are also fearful and demanding answers as to why the government did not inform them of the severity of the soil toxicity much sooner.

Protesters gathered at Baltimore's scenic downtown harbor to protest the execution of Korryn Gaines and the shooting of her young son, Kodi, by Baltimore pigs on August 27, 2016.

The demonstration was led by the People’s Power Assembly which is a mass organization of white leftist Worker’s World Party. Several speakers took to the microphone to demand justice for the murder of Korryn Gaines.

The African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) was at the event to expose the police terror faced by Africans in the U.S. and to deepen the question of Black Community Control of the Police.

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. 

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.

The African community of St. Petersburg, Florida came out in droves on Sunday August 21, 2016 for Burning Spear Media’s event, “Black August: Celebrating African Resistance––From Haiti to Ferguson.”

A group of black mothers who are known because of the murders of their children at the hands of police and white vigilantes have been branded “The Mothers of the Movement” by the Hillary Clinton campaign. 

The group, which includes the mothers of Michael Brown Jr., Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Jordan Davis, debuted their unnatural brand through Clinton’s campaign, as a strategy to help Clinton win the black vote.

The whole world saw the resistance which erupted among the African working class of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 13, 2016, in response to the police murder of 23-year-old African, Sylville Smith.

A CBS reporter on the scene of the uprising, interviewed Sedan Smith, Sylville’s brother.

The reporter, who was particularly more concerned about the possibility of Sedan using profanity on live television than the pain which Sedan was certainly feeling as he mourns his brother’s murder, was ultimately left speechless by Sedan’s powerful words.