Browsing: America

Both the Republicans and the Democrats understand the importance of winning over Black people in the race for US president.   However, many of our people…

This week’s dose of Wednesday wisdom is from a 1963 Malcolm X speech, in which he distinguished between the ‘House Negro’ and the ‘Field Negro.’ He…

America has a long history of police brutality – and Black people in the country have stood up against it every step of the way. One…

Justice delayed is justice denied. The last two remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors have called for a US Department of Justice probe into a white mob…

There’s a huge need for Black-owned bookstores in the US. And it’s a need that’s just got bigger after North Carolina’s very first had to shutter…

As the world remembers Martin Luther King Jr. – assassinated at the age of just 39 – we want to make sure, on this dark anniversary,…

The 25th of March is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. During four centuries, between 10-12 million Africans…

Kenya’s US-backed plan to send police to Haiti has hit another roadblock. Nairobi has halted the deployment of 1,000 officers following the resignation of unelected Haitian…

Western journalists and politicians routinely attack and discredit media houses in the Global South as simple propaganda mouthpieces. One would therefore expect the professionalism, integrity and…

The Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) was a Pan-Africanist organization that human rights defender Malcolm X founded in 1964. The OAAU was modelled on the Organization…