The Black Is Back Coalition held is annual march on the White House, followed by a national conference at Howard University. Among the speakers was Eritha Akile Cainion, a 20 year old activist with the African People’s Socialist Party who ran a spirited campaign for the St. Petersburg, Florida city council on the slogan, “Unity Through Reparations.” Dr. Marsha Coleman Adebayo, of the No Fear Coalition, asked the conference’s help in demanding reparations for the destruction of a Black cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Nicole Price is the Forbes Books author of Spark The Heart: Engineering Empathy In Your Organization.
Nick Encalada-Malinowski is Director of the Civil Rights Union campaign at Vocal-NY.
The climate emergency won't end because of heartfelt pleas to the people and the interests who created the crisis. Ecocide will stop when capitalism ends.
To mark the last days of Black August, we reprint below Freedomways’ 1975 editorial about Joanne Little, a Black woman indicted for killing her white prison guard and would-be rapist.
Somali nationalists claim victory and raise the Somali flag above the city of Las Anod.
