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‘L’s Up, Guns Down’: Mamas resist gun violence from Oakland to Frisco
by Queenandi X Sheba, Poor News Network Thirteen-year-old Lee Weathersby was the first homicide victim in the city of Oakland of 2014. He was shot and killed on his way home from visiting a friend’s...
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We must help our own Black children
Help plan a summit in October 2015: ‘Not Our Children’ by Vanessa Banks I have been a community activist for 20 years, and now it’s my time to do more to help children and families in our community. In...
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Ten things you should know about Selma before you see the film
by Emilye Crosby In Harlem, 15,000 march in solidarity with the Selma voting rights struggle. – Photo: Stanley Wolfson, World Telegram & Sun, Library of Congress In this 50th anniversary year of...
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Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter and Ferguson reps take historic trip to...
Leaders from American racial justice movements connect with Palestinians living under occupation by Kristian Davis Bailey Representatives at the forefront of the movements for Black lives and racial...
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Thousands of Black lives mattered in Nigeria, but the world didn’t pay attention
by Kirsten West Savali As many as 2,000 people, mostly women, children and the elderly have been murdered in the past week in the area of Baga, northern Nigeria. From a bombed NAACP office in Colorado...
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Community protector Bo Frierson tipped from wheelchair for protesting SFPD’s...
by Leroy F. Moore Jr. Devaughn Frierson Jr., better known as Bo, endeavors every day to protect his community and, like the Black Panthers, he doesn’t turn his back to abuse by police. As a community...
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When a mother and her autistic son are evicted: The story of Bessie and...
by Yael Chanoff, Poor News Network When a mother and her autistic son are evicted, where are they supposed to turn? For Bessie Taylor of Monterey County, every option has come up short. Now, she’s...
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If Black lives matter – A message to the youth from behind enemy lines
by Akili Castlin “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it.” – Franz Fanon A protester sits in front of a street fire during a demonstration in...
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Prisons, gangs, witchhunts and white supremacy
by Steve Martinot “My brotha, I don’t intend to give up. I will continue to promote the New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Republic of New Afrika via New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalism...
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West Oakland unites to keep Black families in their homes!
To stay updated, text @OaklandHomeDefenders to 23559 for action alerts for Annette Miller and other black homeowners and long-term residents of Oakland who are fighting foreclosure and eviction! by...
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Repression and a green light for murder: The government ‘shout out to the...
by Ajamu Baraka Marshawn Lynch – Photo: Otto Greule Jr. Obscured by the white noise of the run-up to the Super Bowl, U.S. culture’s 21st century version of the Roman circus, reports began to circulate...
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The value of Black life in America, Part 1
by Anthony Robinson Jr. The Black man “had no rights that a white man was bound to respect.” – U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Dred Scott Dred Scott is buried about a mile down the same road from where...
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Jambalaya in my soul: A tribute to Pat Parker
by Malaika Kambon For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend Famed percussionist (steel drum and djembe) Val Serrant – Photo: Malaika Kambon The first thing you do is to forget that i’m...
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Black Lives Matter activists shut down Emeryville Home Depot for 5 hours,...
by Chinyere Tutashinda The group that shut down BART on Black Friday in November and shut down Oakland police headquarters in December – making Black Lives Matter a household phrase around the world –...
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Graduate students host teach-in to address institutionalized racism at UC...
by Erika O’Bannon, Ariana Allensworth and Amina Mohabbat Berkeley – A contingent of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and mediation at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare on Tuesday, Feb. 24, in...
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Chicago shows love to torture survivors
by Mariame Kaba Banners with the names of 118 Jon Burge torture victims were displayed in the freezing cold on Valentine’s Day by supporters who filled an entire block. For some, the torture hasn’t...
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Community shuts down Mission Station, puts police on trial on anniversary of...
As Black-Brown solidarity grows in the Bay Area, the focus March 22-23 was on the first anniversary of the San Francisco police murder of Alex Nieto, marked with a cultural commemoration Sunday,...
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Stand with the defiant ones in Baltimore
News and analysis by Abayomi Azikiwe follows by Carl Dix Baltimore, April 27, 2015 – The uprising in Baltimore has delivered an unmistakable and powerful message that the time is over when people will...
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Wanda’s Picks for May 2015
by Wanda Sabir MOVE 9, Mumia Abu Jamal, 30th anniversary of MOVE bombing on Osage To remove the MOVE organization off the face of the earth, Philadelphia bombed from a police helicopter – yes, bombed –...
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Two years after his murder, his imam recalls the life of Malcolm Latif Shabazz
by The People’s Minister of Information JR After being interviewed by the Los Angeles Sentinel, a major Black newspaper, Young Malcolm stopped to pay tribute to his grandfather, Malcolm X, whose...
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