Topics

On June 10, 2010, the trial of Johannes Mehserle, former Bay Area Transit (BART) cop, opened in Los Angeles. Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant.

SEATTLE — On Tuesday, June 15, millions of people throughout the U.S. and probably the world, witnessed through media reports, a Seattle cop assault two African women.

The following is a press release sent to Uhuru News for immediate publication. Uhuru News calls on all our readers to support this MOVE initiated campaign to ensure the safety of Chuck Africa, one of many of the MOVE Africa family who have been unjustly imprisoned by U.S. authorities for over 25 years. Free Mumia Abu Jamal. Free Chuck Africa and all MOVE Africa family!

On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, the Oakland branch of the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) hosted a forum entitled “Oakland’s Health Disparities in Black and White.”

The crackdown on the Landless People's Movement in Johannesburg continues. Two LPM militants have been killed in recent days, and ten are currently in prison following the arrests of five others last night.

The U.S. request to get Christopher Dudus Coke, a well known leader of the so-called “Shower Posse gang” with ties to the ruling Jamaican Labour Party (JLP), to be extradited to the U.S. on the alleged charge of gun and drug trafficking, strained, at first, the relation between the U.S. and Jamaican governments.

Editors note: The ruling class media have inundated us with misinformation concerning the irresponsible dumping of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Although this is truly an environmental castrophy, the dumping of oil and the destruction of the environment in Africa, by greedy multi national oil coporations like British Petroleum, Shell Oil, and ExonMobil, go virtually unreported by a media that acts as if it is concerned about the environment.

Editors note: In 1921, Africans who had migrated to Tulsa from the U. S.Southern states, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, understood precisely that the question of independence and economic development must be accompanied by respect and human dignity.

Last year, in Washington, DC, the first North American Regional Conference of the African Socialist International (ASI) was held on African Liberation Day (ALD)...