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African woman Symone Nicole dies in jail when sheriffs jail her instead of taking her to a hospital after car accident

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Walker County, TX––Symone Nicole Marshall was arrested and taken to Walker County Jail instead of a hospital after a car accident where her vehicle flipped over several times. Waker County sheriffs refused to privide her with medical treatment, even when she repeatedly requested it. Symone died in jail two weeks after her arrest.

African Liberation Day: Building unity for Yashica Clemmons, mother of Dominique Battle who was murdered by Pinellas County deputies with her two friends

Spear staff -

This Year’s African Liberation Day, themed: “Building Unity in Struggle” will take place at Howard University in Washington DC on May 21, 2016.

In accordance with the theme of unity, we urge all freedom-loving Africans to attend this powerful African Liberation Day to unite around Yashica Clemmons, the mother of Dominique Battle who who was murdered by Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies.

Uhuru Movement holds press conference to clear up white media’s lies around the Pinellas County sheriff’s murder of three black girls

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At 10am EDT this morning, The Uhuru Movement held a press conference at the Akwaaba Hall in St. Petersburg, Florida to address the police murders of three teenage African girls––Laniya Miller (15), Ashaunti Butler (15) and Dominique Battle (16). On March 31st, Pinellas police enacted a car chase on these young girls, pushed them into a pond and stood by as they drowned.

Sister Afeni Shakur joins the ancestors

Spear staff -
Sister Afeni Shakur has joined the ancestors on May 2, 2016. Comrade Afeni was a revolutionary member of the Black Panther Party who struggled against the State and its oppressive systems. Sister Afeni also had close ties to the African People's Socialist Party.

Celebrating the revolutionary Nina Simone

Spear staff -
The 2015 documentary on Nina Simone, “What Happened, Miss Simone” was an instant classic. The Toronto bookstore, A Different Booklist, organized a group of people to screen the film together when it was first shown here.

Bill Cosby in perspective by Chairman Omali Yeshitela

Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party -
"Cosby was more useful to them as a spokesman against the African working class than the virtuous white women who fell victim to his intoxicating cocktails."

Cover-up in Texas: Still no justice for Sandra Bland

Omowale Kefing -
HOUSTON-In the same federal courthouse where Muhammad Ali was convicted for draft evasion in June of 1967, a wrongful death suit was initiated on December 17, 2015 by attorneys representing the family of Sandra Bland.

The struggle for housing is a black woman’s struggle

Spear staff -
"The displacement of poor and working families, headed mostly by women, is in the shadows of this struggle."

ANWO calls out Spring Valley attack as colonial violence

Spear staff -
On Monday, October 26 at 10:30am a young African girl was battered by an agent of the state (video).  The African National Women's Organization (ANWO) recognizes this as colonial violence, which is structured to indiscriminately carry out the mandates of the ruling class to control oppressed poor and working class African people.
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