Economy

Along with the knowledge that “development” is coming to an African community often comes certain realizations.

Houston – On Saturday October 30, 2010, the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) Fifth Ward Community Garden hosted The One Africa! One Nation! Marketplace, Block Party and Music Festival.

On Saturday, October 9, community residents and AAPDEP members came together at the 5th Ward Community Garden and Food Co-op, in the heart of Fifth Ward at 3703 Brill Street to break dirt and plant seeds in an all-day work project to plant its fall crop.

The football World Cup did not end our poverty

HOUSTON — On Saturday, September 18, 2010, the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) and community members came together at the Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-op to clear its rows of summer’s growth and prepare for a bumper fall crop.

The on-again-off-again presidential candidacy of music star Wyclef Jean is a distraction for Haiti.

Editor’s note: The following is a Press Release submitted to Uhuru News by the Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union of a meeting recently held in London, England. The meeting was to highlight the abrogation of worker’s rights to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining, in an attempt to win international solidarity from the trade unions and organizations present.

ATLANTA—For three days, from August 9 to 11, more than thirty thousand Africans suffered through nearly 100 degree scorching hot weather, many of them passing out from heat exhaustion, just to get an application for government subsidized housing.

HOUSTON-During the March 14 “Time to Till” event, members of Houston’s All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) came with shovels, tillers, hoes, rakes, and an assortment of other garden tools. The Fifth Ward Community Garden and Food Co-Op was only an idea of its organizers.