"I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything."
"We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty" -Winnie
Atlanta University President John Hope in 1899: we are “under the immediate sway of business, more than humanity has ever seen before. We are living among the so-called Anglo-Saxons and dealing with them. They are a conquering people who turn their conquests into their pockets.”
From the Bronx High School of Science, to SUNY Old Westbury, to The Young Lords Party and then a career in journalism our brother and friend Yoruba was beloved by so many and helped make progressive changes for us all. Much love to his family. 💔🙏💔
On this day in 2014, Afro-Peruvian Poet, Activist, Choreographer & Composer Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra transitioned to join the Ancestor, https://t.co/TCcevenOnn; @LMC_show@afrolatinoforum
Greg Abbott has imitated a hostile takeover of the local school district in Houston, TX — taking control away from the local school board so that it’s now run by the state.
Parent and activist Lauren Ashley read the superintendent for FILTH
#GuardianasdelosRíos | 🔊Nuevo episodio de podcast, donde el río es poesía y es la tradición oral que se transmite por generaciones. Escucha este fragmento de un poema de María del Socorro, guardiana del río Atrato, escribió para narrar la vida cotidiana junto al río. #RíoAtrato
Opinion: Black women are the unseen victims of police brutality. Why aren't we talking about it? | Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (@sandylocks)
https://t.co/Tp1F93uX24
On Frantz Fanon’s birthday, let us not forget -
“European opulence is literally a scandal for it was built on the backs of slaves, and it owes its very existence to the soil and subsoil of the underdeveloped world.
"The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves. Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well."
// Frantz Fanon
For @TeenVogue, I wrote about AFRICOM and its growing reliance on African troops in places where the US is not officially at war. https://t.co/IUf1Uq0VHO
Literary icon Wole Soyinka demands public holiday for traditional African religions; an annual holiday like states grant Islam and Christianity. “We’ve had enough of being second-class citizens,” he said. The man has a point
https://t.co/YWQ6SdSPPI
Photo of Pedro Albizu Campos going down some stairs inside the Federal Court in San Juan. He is accompanied by Antonio Vélez Alvarado, creator of the Puerto Rican flag in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1936. The President of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Pedro Albizu Campos,
"Memorias Cantadas" Un viaje ancestral por la cultura y la tradición del Pacífico colombiano, donde podrán conocer nuestra oralidad, importancia de las trenzas, taller de danzas tradicionales y Stand de turbantes. Invita Corporación Ballet Folclórico Afrocolombiano del Pacífico💃🏾
Traveling across U.S., AfroColombian Manuel Zapata had the same kind of experiences as other Blacks folks...he narrates...many instances of & encounters with racism. His book "I've Seen the Night: The Roots of Black Rage" catalogs racist abuses discrimination & segregation."