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Chairman Omali’s Black Community Mural Committee will select African artist to replace anti-African mural snatched down 50 years ago

Spear staff -

ST. PETERSBURG––The Tampa Bay Times released an article Tuesday, June 28th titled, “St. Petersburg committee will invite Uhuru leader's input to replace mural he tore down 50 years ago.”

This piece discussed Chairman Omali Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the the Uhuru Movement, ripping a anti-African mural from the walls of St. Pete’s City Hall 50 years ago on December 29, 1966.

That date in 1966 marks what could be the first time the world saw the slogan “black power” actualize.

Juneteenth: Not yet uhuru (free)

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Even though, then-U.S. president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 proclaiming, “That all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free,” captured Africans remained in the forcible custody of white people in Texas until June 19, 1865.

Many Africans in the U.S. are preparing to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that remembers that day in 1865.

Open letter to U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama: What about the people who are darker than blue?

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U.S. president Barack Hussein Obama, the first African president of the United States, has not recognized Black Music Month and changed the name to African American Music Month in 2009.

Remembering Mama Africa Miriam Makeba

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Mama Africa Miriam Makeba is best known for her song "Pata Pata." She was born in Johannesburg on March 4, 1932. She joined the ancestors on November 9, 2008. Makeba was pro-Africa and had a profound impact on artists such as Aretha Franklin.

Celebrating the revolutionary Nina Simone

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The 2015 documentary on Nina Simone, “What Happened, Miss Simone” was an instant classic. The Toronto bookstore, A Different Booklist, organized a group of people to screen the film together when it was first shown here.

Prince: The great musician and his connection to Africans worldwide

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) -
"There is an African connection to Prince's film 'Purple Rain' as Director Christopher Kirkley re-imagines Prince's 'Purple Rain' on the mother continent."

Affirmation for Black Men

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I am young, gifted and black.
In any environment, I can adapt.

I Know A Place

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“Do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you…”—Jesus, Sermon on the Mount

Call to the INPDUM 2015 Convention – Sept. 26-27 Chicago

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CHICAGO--On September 26 and 27, 2015 African people from throughout the world will gather in Chicago, Illinois to convene the 24th Annual Convention of The International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM).
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