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In Chicago, Illinois and East Chicago, Indiana, hundreds of poor working class Africans are being relocated by by the State after alarmingly high levels of lead in soil has been revealed. 

The extent of the lead contamination came as a shock to the African community, due to the dangers of the past presence of a huge former U.S.S. lead smelting plant being kept from the them. 

The African communities of Illinois and Chicago are well aware of the effects of lead poisoning which Flint’s Africans are struggling with. They are also fearful and demanding answers as to why the government did not inform them of the severity of the soil toxicity much sooner.

The colonized and oppressed people of Puerto Rico are deepening the crisis of imperialism by intensifying their resistance to U.S. colonialism.

Puerto Ricans shut down superstore, Walmart, on September 1, 2016 to protest the economic chokehold the corporation has on the island.

Five hundred Puerto Ricans protested in San Juan to demand independence on Jun 18, 2016. The demonstration was led by the Puerto Rican Independence Movement.

Puerto Ricans led by Se Acabaron Las Promesas (Promises Are Over) demonstrated at the Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, blocking the capitalist gangsters who were there to attend the first PROMESA Conference on August 31, 2016.

The PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act) is a program which the U.S. imposed on the people of the island.

The Indigenous people to this land are currently engaged in intense struggle against parasitic capitalist companies as well as the U.S. State to protect their land and water supply.

Indigenous people of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota are heavily resisting––and have been since the beginning of August––the illegitimate plans to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The pipeline is an estimated $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline that will span 1,172-mile and cross the Missouri River to carry crude oil from North Dakota, through South Dakota and Iowa, to southern Illinois.

Prisoners across the U.S. went on strike on September 9th, The 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising. The strike took place in 24 states and about 40-50 prisons were involved.

Africans from Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, California and St. Louis will be convening on Ground Zero of the resurgence of the black liberation struggle, Ferguson, MO, on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th, for the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s (InPDUM) 25th Anniversary Convention: "Continuing the Black Struggle for Self-Determination: The task at hand."

The Convention will be held at the Greater St. Marks Church where we will organize and strategize towards gaining true self-determination as one African people.

There is no question that revolution is the ONLY solution for our freedom. There will be various workshops to provide our people with critical skills to build and organize towards revolution in our own communities.

Uhuru Comrades, sisters and brothers. As the President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), I am calling on you to attend the historic 25th Anniversary Convention of InPDUM which will take place on September 17 and 18, 2016 at St. Mark Church 9950 Glen Owen Dr., Ferguson, MO 63136

InPDUM was founded in 1991 under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). Our trajectory is a revolutionary trajectory with the objective to win our freedom. No other organization has dedicated their existence to the unification and liberation of all Africans across the globe. We recognize that self-determination is the highest form of democracy, which has been stolen from us by the ruling class.

This call is being made with the most serious sense of urgency. The struggle of the 60s continues as the crisis of imperialism deepens. The imperialist (white ruling class) offers up Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as solutions, but neither of them offer up solutions for the black community.

Journalist and author, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill gave an interview to Power 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast Club on August 3, 2016 to discuss current events, most notably the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Hill echoed what the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) has repeatedly stated during the entire election season when he said that Democrats are using the possibility of Donald Trump winning the election as a way to scare black voters into voting for Hillary Clinton. 

NICE, France––French police forced a Muslim woman to remove her traditional Muslim garment while she attempted to enjoy the beach on August 24th.

Photographs of the incident went viral online, sparking uproar.

These images show at least four cops––armed with pepper spray, batons and guns––confronting and standing over the woman––who has been identified as Siam––who was wearing a tunic, leggings and a head scarf, and relaxing on the shore at the town’s Promenade des Anglais.

Siam was forced to remove a blue long-sleeved garment. She was also given an on-the-spot fine and ordered to leave the beach.