Special Features

FERGUSON, MO—August 9th  marks the two-year anniversary of the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown who was killed by Ferguson, MO Police Officer Darren Wilson. 

Witnesses stated that Mike Brown was shot eight times while his hands were in the air. His rotting body was then kept on the concrete for more than eight hours as an example to the Ferguson community of what the police will do if they disobey their orders. 

What the police did not expect in this suburb of St. Louis, MO was resistance from the African working class community. This powerful display of African Resistance on August 9, 2014 marks one of the critical dates in Black August.

Randallstown, MD––Baltimore County police murdered a 23-year-old African mother, Korryn Gaines, and shot her five-year-old son on August 1, 2016.

BRAZIL— The Brazilian government has upped its colonial violence against Africans in Rio de Janeiro since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) named the city as the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Olympics are set to begin on August 5, 2016.

Recognizing the significance of cadre development to advancing the struggle for African liberation and socialist revolution, International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) President, Kalambyi Andenet sought out to consolidate an InPDUM Unit within the African People’s Socialist Party’s (APSP) political development and organizational training school.

As the Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party and African Socialist International, Omali Yeshitela often says, “If the objective is simply to understand the scriptures of the bible, study the bible, but if you want to understand the history of human society, you must study the world.”

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.

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.”

The struggle between Pan-Africanism and African Internationalism is a contest for the truth, between African petty bourgeoisie and the African workers.

It does not happen in vacuum or in outer space, it happens in a  parasitic capitalist world that is split between oppressed and oppressors nations, between bosses and workers, petty bourgeoisie and working class.

There is no Pan-Africanism in general. It has a class ownership.

New York—Yesterday marked one year since the suicide death of Kalief Browder. Young African Kalief was arrested at the age of 16 in 2010 and imprisoned for three years for allegedly stealing a backpack.

Kalief never stood trial, nor was he found guilty of any crime. He, however, spent three years at the Riker’s jail. Nearly two of those years were spent in solitary confinement.

The case was eventually dismissed and Kalief, affectionately called Peanut by his family, was released in June of 2013 after numerous postponements of his case and 31 hearings.

Kalief hanged himself in his home in the Bronx on June 6th of last year.