Law and Legal Cases

Tillery, NC - On Saturday, October 23, 2010, the first SAVE THE LAND: Black Farmers & Landowners Benefit & Rally is being held in the rural farming community of Tillery, NC where the 1930s’ New Deal Tillery Resettlement Farms is located.

Lybon Mabasa was one of the young activists of the Black Conscience Movement set up by Steve Biko during the 1976 Soweto uprising.

Leonard Peltier is an Indigenous political prisoner, an Oglala freedom fighter and American Indian Movement member who was framed up and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences on “evidence” manufactured by the US government.

JACKSON, Mississippi — On a hot day in Mississippi, around 300 people filled the streets as they marched demanding the release of Jamie and Gladys Scott who have spent the past 15 years unjustly imprisoned.

PHILADELPHIA- On Tuesday, August 24, the US government gave another example of its desperation in the face of popular resistance with the conviction of Diop Olugbala in Philadelphia.

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.

A rally to show unity with the struggle to free Diop Olugbala is planned for Monday, August 23, 2010, at 4-7pm at North Broad...

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.

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.