What does a class of doctors, lawyers, politicians, professors and business owners mean for Black people when they do not operate in service to Black people and socialize and pipeline their children through institutions that conduct cultural programming to uphold antiblackness?
Writer and former Black Panther leader Mumia Abu-Jamal — who has been a political prisoner in Pennsylvania for nearly 45 years — is now seeking UN intervention.
On Tuesday, the 72-year-old filed a petition with the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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Mary Helen Washington’s book The Other Blacklist explores this phenomenon within Black literary circles of the 50s with the nuance it deserves.
Especially her chapter on the 1959 AMSAC conference which, unbeknownst to Julian Mayfield and Lorraine Hansberry, received CIA funding