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REFLECTION: Choosing Ourselves: Black Women and Abortion, Beverly Smith, 1989
18 May 2022
A 1989 talk by Black feminist Beverly Smith reminds us that for Black women, the right to abortion can be a woman’s right to life.
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Essay: Record of Revolts in Negro Workers’ Past: Mary Adams, May 1, 1928
04 May 2022
A May Day 1928 essay by Black communist Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs – aka Mary Adams – recounts the history of African revolt in the Americas.
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SPEECH: “The architects of this murder are many:” Kwame Nkrumah on the killing of Patrice Lumumba, 1961
27 Apr 2022
Kwame Nkrumah’s 1961 speech on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba exposes the the international white supremacist cabal responsible for his death, and for the crisis of the Congo.
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MANIFESTO: Africa in the Post-War World, San Francisco, April 1945
20 Apr 2022
When a new international order came into being with the organization of the United Nations in 1945, African people proposed their own visions for the post war world.
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DOCUMENT: Covert Action Exploitation of Cuban Involvement in Angola, 1977
06 Apr 2022
A declassified CIA document outlining their strategies for covert action in Angola in the 1970s offers lessons for the present.
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DOCUMENT: An Act for the Abolition of Slavery [and for Compensating White Slaveowners], 1833
30 Mar 2022
The recent visit of members of the British “royal family” to Belize, Jamaica, and the Bahamas drew attention to longstanding issues and unsettled accounts concerning slavery, colonialism, and i
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MANIFESTO: The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads, 1972
23 Mar 2022
In 1972, thousands of Black people met in Gary, Indiana to establish a political and economic platform that would influence the US presidential elections. The document from this meeting, The National…
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WORKING PAPER: The Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement: The Threat of A Communist-Nationalist Alliance Against the West, 1958
15 Mar 2022
Declassified papers from NATO’s archives detail a comprehensive counter-revolutionary strategy against decolonization, including the active sabotaging of Afro-Asian solidarity and the “spirit of…
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ESSAY: Women's Organizations in the Caribbean Community from the 19th Century to Today, Rhoda Reddock, 1990.
09 Mar 2022
International Women's Day has radical roots going back more than 100 years. Caribbean women have always played a pivotal role in political organizing.
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DOCUMENT: Of the Culture of White Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois, 1917
02 Mar 2022
As the European-initiated World War I raged, W. E. B. DuBois reminded us about the destructive nature of the “culture of white folk.” It is a reminder sorely needed today.