Huey Newton: Revolutionary Suicide and Other Works

Revolutionary Suicide The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America’s Black Panther Party. From Newton’s impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his…

Black Power: Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton

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…

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…