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African Women! We Will Fight! We Will Win!

Spear staff - May 31, 2015

African women in the United States are three times more likely to die as a result of intimate partner violence (IPV). Although we represent only 8 percent of the U.S. population, 22 percent of African women have died as a result of IPV and we are also 29 percent of all cases of victimized women.

African woman in Baltimore acting as arm of the State when she attacked her son

Spear staff - May 6, 2015

When black parents encourage their children to turn themselves in to the police, because of some colonial understanding of morality or white ruling class law, we become an arm of the State.

Community Builds Uhuru Health Festival in Philadelphia

uhuru furniture philadelphia - March 27, 2015

Community Builds 2015 Uhuru Health Festival in Philadelphia Are you curious about a black community perspective on alternative health solutions? Do you want to try...

Our Generation Needs Liberation Music, Not Protest Songs

January 30, 2015

D'Angelo's Black Messiah reminds us that political music needs to ask questions We want "poems that kill.' Assassin poems, Poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops...

Overturn imperialist definitions of our reality – Bring the people science! Bring the people the International African Revolution!

Asa Anpu - July 4, 2014

Editors Note: The following essay first appeared in the June, 2014 print edition of The Burning Spear newspaper's "Build to Win - Opinions, Analyses,...

Diasporic Music: The genius of Duke Ellington

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - July 4, 2014

Malcolm X used to shine Duke Ellington’s shoes when he was a youth in Boston. In fact, Malcolm says in his autobiography that Ellington’s alto...

True Definition of Freedom: A poem from South Africa

thabiso jackie mokhali aka formality - June 18, 2014

TRUE DEFINITION OF FREEDOM You came to an African’s mind, Narrated new novels so should I be blind, But freedom you lied. You lied about my history as...

Diasporic Music spotlights Marvin Gaye

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - June 8, 2014

I said I wasn’t going to write another article like this. I was wrong. Dead wrong! After reading that Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ has now surpassed...

Diasporic Music for April 2014

Norman "Otis" Richmond (aka Jalali) - April 15, 2014

Remembering Amiri Baraka, celebrating two giants of black music, enjoying Diasporic Music and checking out Habib Koite's Soo.

Seizing African self-determination through art and culture

The streamer and the social bribe

Defend African workers from South Africa’s colonial attacks

Our Own Liberators

The Ballot and the Bullet!

Outbreak of colonial Ebola: Barbarism or African self-determination?

Femicide is colonial violence: Why colonized women are dying

Football fans in shock! FIFA collides with parasitic corporations to fleece the world

Uhuru Bakery & Café Grand Opening celebrates Marcus Garvey’s 139th birthday!

Black Mother’s March gathers in D.C. to expose state-kidnappings of black children

Mobile museum exhibit showcases 50+ years of Uhuru

All out to Atlanta for historic Uhuru 3 appeal!

Uhuru Bakery & Café Grand Opening celebrates Marcus Garvey’s 139th birthday!

Today’s imperialist attacks are rooted in the first colonial attack on Africa

“This time ’til it’s won!” Uhuru advances mission to seize Black Power

Defend African workers from South Africa’s colonial attacks

The Ballot and the Bullet!

Mobile museum exhibit showcases 50+ years of Uhuru

Femicide is colonial violence: Why colonized women are dying

Huey P. Newton: “You might not have the Panthers, but you have the Uhuru House”

Seizing African self-determination through art and culture

Defend African workers from South Africa’s colonial attacks

Delaney Hall imprisons colonized people on poisoned land

Outbreak of colonial Ebola: Barbarism or African self-determination?

“America 250” celebrates colonial violence

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