Black Power: Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton Black Power: The Politics of Liberation is a 1967 book co-authored by Stokely Carmichael and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton. The work defines Black Power, presents insights into the roots of racism in the United States and suggests a means of reforming the traditional political process for the…
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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…
Black Power Blueprint: Reclaim the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
[Begins at 2:39] Reclaim the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.! MLK Day belongs to the African community! Join Black Power Blueprint LIVE! as we speak with African People’s Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela about how the government assassinated Martin Luther King because he fought for justice for black people. We will discuss the struggle…
Steve Biko: ‘The Most Potent Weapon in the Hands of the Oppressor is the Mind of the Oppressed’
Mike Peters You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can’t care anyway. – Steve Biko, Interview with American journalist a few months before his death Mention the name of Steve Biko today and, although a few people might recall the 1980 Peter Gabriel song or the…
Uprooting Colonialism and Dismantling Colonial Ways in the Afrikan Community
Veli Mbele The author offers a detailed analysis on how to decolonise African minds and to fight against neo-colonialism, not only in South Africa, but also across Africa. Introductory remarks Siyacamagusha Mafrika! In the spirit of our ancestors, whose names are unknown and bodies were violently snatched from Afrika and scattered of all over the…
Youth Touched by Biko: The Quest for a “More Humane Face”
Veli Mbele This brief input deals with the meaning of Steve Bantu Biko for young people today and whether his vision of bestowing upon South Africa “a more humane face” remains valid. Biko is without doubt one of the most important figures of Black liberation of the past century. Today, 41 years after his murder,…
The Russian Revolution, Africa and the Diaspora
This article is part of Black Perspective’s forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora. Hakim Adi From the time of the Great October Revolution in 1917, Africans and those of African heritage around the world gravitated towards the revolutionary events in Russia and Communism, seeing in them a path to their…
Karen Spellman and the SNCC Legacy Project – Black Power Chronicle
When did the “Civil Rights Movement” morph into the “Black Power Era” — or is that a false dichotomy. The best testimony on that question comes from those who participated in the process – people like Karen Spellman, an early activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and currently co-director of the Black Power Chronicles….
The Anarchism of Blackness
William C. Anderson, Zoé Samudzi Present incarnations of an unfazed and empowered far right increasingly demand the presence of a real, radical left. In the coming months and years, the left and left-leaning constituencies of the United States will need to make clear distinctions between potentially counterproductive symbolic progress, and actual material progress. Liberalism and…
Ida B. Wells: Anti-lynching Crusader
By Abayomi Azikiwe The many references by African-American women intellectuals and activists to educational achievement, economic self-reliance, sobriety and religious adherence suggest that Western bourgeois values influenced their thinking and organizational approaches. However, the social conditions created by Reconstruction’s failure must be considered. The profit-driven system of institutional racism and national oppression required super-exploitation of…
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Princess of the Press, Feminist Crusader for Equality and Justice
By Kiilu Nyasha A tireless champion of her people, Ida B. Wells was the first of eight children born to Jim and Elizabeth Wells in Mississippi in 1862, six months before chattel slavery was ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. Her parents, who had been slaves, were able to support their children because Elizabeth was an…
The White Women’s March
By Yejide Orunmila President of ANWO (African National Women’s Organization) From “Beyond the Women’s March: White Women’s Reparations to African People” Web Conference hosted by the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. Yejide Orunmila, president of ANWO (African National Women’s Organization) and member of the Uhuru Movement examines the (white) Women’s March on Washington, and explains the political…
