Democratic Rights

For years, African people living in the city of Toronto have had to live with heavy police containment in our communities.

The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is an organization comprised of otherwise independent groups and institutions that fit within...

It seems like the PPRC of Sierra Leone is trying to start another '2010 political fire game' under this APC regime, just like the...

After holding on November 7 the first national peace mobilization in Washington, D. C. since the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, the...

Honduras – June 29, 2009 Democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from his office and his country when he tried to hold...

What I am struck by is how these Africans are able to step over all of the attacks against African people that they can see before them in the U.S. and, instead of writing a statement to Obama demanding an end to them, go all the way to Cuba to address contradictions that I’d bet most of them know nothing about.

We are here to announce that on November 7th hundreds of Africans and other people from throughout the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean will be converging on this city for a rally and march in opposition to the U.S. wars and occupations against the peoples of the world and against our own communities in the U.S.

When we started this trek on September 12 to build the Black is Back Coalition and the rally and mobilization now scheduled for November 7th in D.C. many marveled at our audacity. Some were dumbfounded that we should take it upon ourselves to challenge the direction of U.S. domestic and foreign policy while an African was at the helm of the U.S. government. Some were intimidated by the notion of confronting an apparently popular black president and especially within the short time span from our inception and the proposed mobilization.

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States to the obvious joy of millions of African people in...