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DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-Determining Haiti, 1920
15 Jul 2021
Published in 1920, Self-Determining Haiti remains a remarkable example of investigative journalism and advocacy and a damning testament to the perils and pitfalls of US military interventi
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MANIFESTO: International African Service Bureau’s Manifesto Against War, 1938
08 Jul 2021
German Nazis, Italian Fascists, British, French, Belgian democracies – all are the same, imperialist exploiters .
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DOCUMENT: Internal Security Act of 1950
01 Jul 2021
The terms of the McCarran Act strategy offer a wide catchment that has the potential to ensnare any progressive or radical movement.
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REVIEW ESSAY: A Truncated Story of Black Rebellion, Charisse Burden-Stelly
23 Jun 2021
Black violence functioned as both a political challenge to racial domination and a political rationale for both the intensification and normalization of aggressive and pervasive policing in poor Bl
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TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
09 Jun 2021
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.”
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ESSAY: Knife Edge: Living with Domestic and Economic Violence, Andiaye, 2013
02 Jun 2021
Andiaye, a tireless advocate for the rights and welfare of women in Guyana, agitated against the system’s “way of organizing the economy which creates poverty and then criminalizes it.”
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SPEECH: The Meaning of African Liberation Day: Walter Rodney, May 27, 1972
26 May 2021
At the 1972 event, Walter Rodney proclaimed that “black unity must be international because we live on every continent, through no choice of our own.”
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Poem: June Jordan, Moving towards Home, 1982
19 May 2021
Seventy-three years after the Nakba began, the Zionists continue their land and rights thievery, to which June Jordan, the Black American poet, bore powerful witness.
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The Mother’s Day Massacre: Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1985
12 May 2021
Four years into his own ordeal as a political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal charged Philadelphia’s government with premeditated mass murder in the slaughter of MOVE men, women and children.
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Return to the Source: Trayvon Martin and White Madness, July 18, 2013
21 Apr 2021
Black people cannot change white people’s warped perceptions of the world, although, Lord knows, we’ve tried.