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...

Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

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

White power feigns “AID” for AIDS, but we want reparations!

They tried to kill our revolution, but Black Power lives through the Uhuru Movement!

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

The impending decline of imperialism in Western Africa: From Mali to the creation of the Alliance of the Sahel States

April marks forty years of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s work to push back the counterinsurgency!

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

Trump’s presidency continues colonialism—not fascism!

Election of Trump is a crisis for white power: The work is not done, African people’s resistance will persist

Uhuru Bakery & Cafe wins St. Louis permit appeal!

Not one day in prison! No fine in Uhuru 3 sentencing victory!

Hands Off Uhuru supporters demonstrate in Pretoria

Africans in London mobilized by the demand to drop all charges against the Uhuru 3

This time ’til it’s won! African People’s Socialist Party celebrates founding on African Liberation Day

April marks forty years of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s work to push back the counterinsurgency!

They tried to kill our revolution, but Black Power lives through the Uhuru Movement!

Cwecwe is a victim of colonialism, and betrayal by neocolonial leadership

Black mother jailed while searching for her abused and missing daughter

White power feigns “AID” for AIDS, but we want reparations!

The impending decline of imperialism in Western Africa: From Mali to the creation of the Alliance of the Sahel States

Cwecwe is a victim of colonialism, and betrayal by neocolonial leadership

Black Power 96.3 FM radio’s “Weather the Storms Together” webinar raises funds for emergency alert system

One Africa! One Nation! Uhuru Flea market returns to Philly in 2025

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Reporting from behind enemy lines, the reality of prisons in America

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