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Black is Back response to the drawing down of US troops in Iraq

President Obama has recently pulled approximately 90,000 US troops out of the Republic of Iraq, leaving about 50,000 there.

Haitian music star Wyclef Jean’s presidential candidacy a distraction

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

Black workers in Guyana struggle against neocolonial State and foreign bosses

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.

Protesters to frolic in City Hall plaza fountain, thanks to pool closings

This an update from Poor Peoples' March in Dallas, TX on July 25th 2010.  Aug. 18, 2010.   Protesters, took a dip in the Fountain at...

Put U.S. and British imperialism and the diamond corporations on trial, not Naomi Campbell

From 1989 to 1997, Charles Taylor, who escaped mysteriously from a U.S. prison, was the leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), a rebel group that fought in Liberia to overthrow the government of Samuel K. Doe.

African worker shoots and kill colonial bosses in Connecticut

MANCHESTER, Conn – On Tuesday, August 3, 34-year-old African truck driver, Omar Thornton, shot eight of his white co-workers and bosses to death while wounding two others at a family owned Liquor Distributorship in Manchester, Connecticut. He used two 9mm pistols. Another weapon, a shot gun, was found in his car.

Police murder African at traffic stop

On July 5, 2010, a 36-year-old African man named Decarlos Moore was shot and killed by a cop during a” routine” traffic stop in Miami, FL.

The Shirley Sherrod that most of her defenders do not know!

Imagine farm workers doing back breaking labor in the sweltering sun, sprayed with pesticides and paid less than minimum wage. Imagine the United Farm Workers called in to defend these laborers against such exploitation by management. Now, imagine that the farm workers are black children and adults and that the managers are Shirley Sherrod, her husband Rev. Charles Sherrod, and a host of others. But, it’s no illusion; this is a fact.

Lolita Lebron, Puerto Rican freedom fighter dies at 90

Revered by revolutionaries and the common people on all five continents, Lolita Lebron died on Ausust 1 in her beloved Puerto Rico at the age of 90.
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