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On June 23, 2010, a Poor Peoples’ March was held at Dallas City Hall as part of a fight to save recreation and senior centers in the African communities.

On April 19, 2010, Clevonta “Tae” Reynolds was shot and killed by an off-duty Houston police officer in Arlington, TX. It was just nine days after Tae’s 18th birthday.

Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) veteran Peter Molotsi (81), died yesterday following a long illness, the party said. Molotsi had been one of only two remaining members of the original national executive committee when the party was founded in 1959, PAC spokesperson Lehlohonolo Shale said today.

Lynne Stewart is a 70-year-old white woman, a lawyer and breast cancer patient who on July 15 of this year was given a 10 year sentence to prison.

According to syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr, and the Department of Health and Human Services, “9.5 percent of blacks (about 3.6 million people) and 8.2 percent of whites (about 16 million people) reported using some form of illicit drug in the previous month. Yet, though there are more than four times as many white drug users as black ones, blacks represent better than half those in state prison on drug charges.”

NEW YORK - The Iroquois Nationals, the national lacrosse team of the Indigenous Iroquois nation, on July 17, exhausted all efforts, short of denouncing their sovereignty, to enter Britain on legally issued Haudenosaunee passports from the Iroquois Confederacy, their own government.

African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC) stands in solidarity with the Iroquois’ struggle to declare their sovereignty.

Editors Note: Whether sporting events like NBA Basketball or FIFA Football should be important to the masses of our people is highly questionable. But the fact is that they are. Hence, they deserve some sort of African Revolutionary spin or explanation to them. The effort by blackfood.org to address this question is commendable.

On Thursday July 1, 2010, my brother Darryl Anderson was walking up 52nd Street towards Chestnut, going to the store where officer McGrudy of the 18th District stood.