Film Archives - The Burning Spear

African anti-colonial cinema, join Uhuru’s black working class film series

Matsemela Odom, InPDUM President - February 17, 2024

In recent years, the tradition of African anti-colonial cinema has reemerged in a variety of forms: motion pictures (feature-length films), television series, documentaries, and...

“They Cloned Tyrone” exposes the everyday expressions of colonial capitalism

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor - November 9, 2023

Its comedic timing and almost parody-like undertones might, for some, obscure the more serious and revealing aspects of "They Cloned Tyrone," a 2023 film...

“Oppenheimer” film sympathizes with atomic bomb scientist; fails to call out U.S. genocide and terrorism

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor - September 17, 2023

Rather than a story about the atrocities committed against the Japanese people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second Imperialist War, Christopher Nolan’s 2023...

Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

The politics of Bob Marley’s “Catch A Fire”: A timeless call for resistance and revolution

White power feigns “AID” for AIDS, but we want reparations!

They tried to kill our revolution, but Black Power lives through the Uhuru Movement!

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

The impending decline of imperialism in Western Africa: From Mali to the creation of the Alliance of the Sahel States

April marks forty years of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s work to push back the counterinsurgency!

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

Trump’s presidency continues colonialism—not fascism!

Election of Trump is a crisis for white power: The work is not done, African people’s resistance will persist

Uhuru Bakery & Cafe wins St. Louis permit appeal!

Not one day in prison! No fine in Uhuru 3 sentencing victory!

Hands Off Uhuru supporters demonstrate in Pretoria

Africans in London mobilized by the demand to drop all charges against the Uhuru 3

This time ’til it’s won! African People’s Socialist Party celebrates founding on African Liberation Day

April marks forty years of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s work to push back the counterinsurgency!

They tried to kill our revolution, but Black Power lives through the Uhuru Movement!

Cwecwe is a victim of colonialism, and betrayal by neocolonial leadership

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

White power feigns “AID” for AIDS, but we want reparations!

The impending decline of imperialism in Western Africa: From Mali to the creation of the Alliance of the Sahel States

Cwecwe is a victim of colonialism, and betrayal by neocolonial leadership

Black Power 96.3 FM radio’s “Weather the Storms Together” webinar raises funds for emergency alert system

One Africa! One Nation! Uhuru Flea market returns to Philly in 2025

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Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

The politics of Bob Marley’s “Catch A Fire”: A timeless call for resistance and revolution