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.
The Black Power Matters March directs us to fight against colonialism, for Black Community Control of the Police, and for a Black Agenda for Self-Determination.
This week the Democratic Party presidential ticket was on your minds.
The long tradition of radical black critique in popular forms of expression gives us material on which to model our re-imagining of the world.
The mulatta serves as a strategy of containment of Blackness through logics of racial management.
The fierce fighter against slavery defeated European armies but died in a cold French prison.
