Just like we glorified the black leather jackets, black berets, and guns in the 60s, we still romanticize African people with guns and mouths that fire more inaccurately than the guns they carry.

The martyred revolutionary’s assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum. 

To break cyclical, systemic oppression requires a functionality that rejects reified notions of governance, global capitalism, and accommodation.

Jazzman William Parker’s work is a bold art of resistance to capitalism, colonialism, racism, and the runaway train that is our present-day America.

Ruth Maclean’s article, like countless others in Western media, took place in an Africa without leaders, without public health officials or activists.