Archishman Raju Both Newton and King sought to create a united front for peace and socialism. “Both refused to be dogmatic and creatively synthesized ideas to apply them in their struggle.” We live in times of change, in a world where protest and rebellion but also confusion and anarchy define politics. A new world is…
Category: Black Liberation
Black Self-Defense is Important, But Ideology is Paramount
Yafeuh Balogon, a leader of the Dallas-based Huey P. Newton Gun Club, which advocates armed Black self-defense, said the club was inspired by the “founding of the Black Panther Party, more than half a century ago. When armed white supremacists tried to stage a show of force in the Black section of Dallas in 2016,…
I Believe that Socialism is the Key to a Better World
Gloria Verdieu From a talk by Gloria Verdieu at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego. Verdieu shared the stage with poets from the San Diego / Tijuana reEvolutionary Poets Brigade at an evening of “Poetry, Education, and Voter Registration.” Thank you, Jim for inviting me to speak at this important event. A…
Fundamental Black and Native Opposition to White Settler State
Blacks and Native Americans continue to pose a threat to the “conquistador white settler nation,” agues Tiffany King, author of “The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.” King is a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Georgia. “There are impulses within both Black abolition and Native decolonization…
Omali Yeshitela: The Deepening Crisis of Imperialism
Welcome to this week’s #OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study featuring Chairman Omali Yeshitela. We will be “The deepening Crisis of Imperialism” from Vanguard: the Advanced Detachment of the African Revolution. Study Materials Omali Yeshitela: Materialism and the Dialectical Method
Black Panther Commander Huey P. Newton: Speech at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (1970)
Speaker 6: So I bring you Huey P. Newton, the Minister of Defense and our Supreme Commander. Huey P. Newton: I applaud you because you’re all such beautiful people, and the power is with you. And as soon as we realize that, we’ll make many changes. As a matter of fact, we will transform the…
Black Panther Michael Tabor: Keynote at the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (1970)
Keynote address by Michael Tabor on the history of the United States and the political objectives of the Black Panthers. Another speech from the same convention by Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton is available here. Recorded by radio station KPFA in 1970, the speech was editied somewhat for length. The full version can be heard…
The Necessity Defense
Anthony Rogers-Wright You can’t build long-term power by letting white supremacists, nor the government, harm and kill people with impunity. “We can no longer even try to suggest that we can negotiate with white supremacy and fascism.” While appearing on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, the good and brilliant scholar/thought leader Dr. Cornell West did not mince words, “We would…
Black Women With Guns
From Harriet Tubman to female members of the Black Panther Party, Black women have always played a role in armed resistance in the United States, said Jasmine Young, a doctoral fellow at the University of California’s Department of African American Studies. Young is working on a manuscript titled, “Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in…
Omali Yeshitela: Materialism and the Dialectical Method
Uhuru Comrades! Welcome to #OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study featuring Chairman Omali Yeshitela. This week’s study will be from Chapter 6, Chapter 6, Dialectics and Metaphysics pages 54-66. Download Study Materials>>
Study, Fast, Train, Fight: The Roots of Black August
Joe Tache Exactly 400 years ago, in August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States for the first time. The centuries since have seen the development of a racial system more violent, extractive, and deeply entrenched than any other in human history. Yet where…
Left Forum 2019: Black Liberation Strategies in the Empire of Exceptionalism
Moderator: Nellie Hester Bailey Panelists: Raymond Nat Turner, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Glen Ford The Black Agenda Report team discusses “late stage” capitalism, the shrinking U.S. empire, and the dangers of a desperate ruling class on the wane.
