Special Features

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.

The Haiti Revolution is known as the most successful rebellion of African people.

It led to the creation of the first African state free from slavery and is an inspiration for African resistance throughout the world.

Each August, growing numbers of Africans around the world celebrate the birth of Marcus Mosiah Garvey who was born on August 17, 1887 in St. Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica.

The celebration of Garvey's birth date is due to the fact that since the attack on Africa that led to the capture, dispersal and enslavement of millions of Africans and the colonization of Africa, no African has been more instrumental in creating the vision of a free and liberated Africa and African people.

According to the feminist movement, the basic principle of feminist thought is that women should be equal to men politically, economically and socially.

Even though feminism did not become a household name until the 1970s, the first wave of feminism was already expressed in the early nineteenth century, mainly in places such as the United States, France and the UK, where we see the birth and emergence of the oldest feminist movements.

Washington D.C.––U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama offered up criticisms of Republican candidate Donald Trump and declared him “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve as U.S. president during a White House press conference on August 2, 2016.

Chicago, IL—Another African teenager has been murdered by the arm of the State. On July 28, 18-year-old African Paul O’Neal was shot in the back and killed by Chicago police.

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.