Music Archives - The Burning Spear

The politics of Bob Marley’s “Catch A Fire”: A timeless call for resistance and revolution

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor - April 19, 2025

On April 13, 1973, Bob Marley and the Wailers released their fifth studio album, Catch A Fire, catapulting themselves and reggae onto the world...

Here’s what made Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show significant

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor - March 7, 2025

Kendrick Lamar’s highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime performance on February 9, 2025, predictively ignited widespread internet discourse and analyses on its presumed coded, subversive,...

Judy Mowatt’s album “Black Woman:” an ode to African women, everywhere

Solyana Bekele, Managing Editor - March 14, 2023

When discussing the objectives of her musical career, Judy Mowatt says, “I wanted to express myself and the kind of songs I wanted to...

U.S.-funded Philippine military bombs Black Indigenous community in Mindoro

Housing theft is colonial domination—organizers demand community control!

Spies and gentrification threaten to erase African population in St. Louis

Uhuru 3 win early termination of probation in victory for anti-colonial free speech

The promise we made: Black Power 96 and the February Fund Drive to protect the black voice

African women condemn U.S. attack on Venezuela, kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and First Lady Cilia Flores de Maduro

Boston demands accountability for killing of Shacoby Kenny!

Reparations Investment Company: The “greater investment” in African self-determination!

Chairman Omali and the world struggle to end the colonial mode of production

Failed coup leaders identified French imperialism as the enemy of Africa

Uhuru 3 win early termination of probation in victory for anti-colonial free speech

New book chronicles the leadership of Chairman Omali, correctness of African Internationalism

Support letters for Chairman Omali’s leadership flooded Uhuru 3 sentencing judge

How Chairman Omali made ‘colonialism’ a household word

The truth behind Ras Baraka’s arrest

African women condemn U.S. attack on Venezuela, kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and First Lady Cilia Flores de Maduro

Boston demands accountability for killing of Shacoby Kenny!

Reparations Investment Company: The “greater investment” in African self-determination!

New Uhuru Bakery & Cafe opens in St. Louis intime for pie sales campaign

Western Region trains cadres in African Internationalism and self-defense

U.S.-funded Philippine military bombs Black Indigenous community in Mindoro

Housing theft is colonial domination—organizers demand community control!

Spies and gentrification threaten to erase African population in St. Louis

African women condemn U.S. attack on Venezuela, kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and First Lady Cilia Flores de Maduro

Is the South African white left reactionary?

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U.S.-funded Philippine military bombs Black Indigenous community in Mindoro

Housing theft is colonial domination—organizers demand community control!