Campus activist Richard Masato Aoki dies at 70: San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Memorial services will be held in early May for Richard Masato Aoki, an Oakland native who was interned as a boy during World War II and later played a key role in the Black Panther Party and the 1969 Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley...
'Open Veins' and enduring ills in Latin America: Los Angeles Times - CA, USA
The reading list for my college core course at UC Santa Cruz in the early 1970s included a book by a young Uruguayan author, Eduardo Galeano, called "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent." The book, which excoriated Europe and the United States for their exploitation of the region, was pretty standard fare at a school where Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse was a visiting professor and Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton was a fellow student...
Bay Area Indymedia: In Prison My Whole Life: A Journey towards Freedom
In the documentary In Prison My Whole Life, young William Francome tells us that he was born the night that Mumia Abu-Jamal was jailed for the killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner and that his mother has often reminded him that every year of his life represents another year in prison for Mumia Abu-Jamal. After listening to Rage against the Machine voice their support for Mumia, he sets out on a journey to find out about the man who’s been in prison his whole life...
Black Panther co-founder reminisces: Chabot Spectator - USA
Last Wednesday Chabot College was honored by the presence of Bobby Seale, the man who, along with Huey P. Newton, co-founded the Black Panther Party in he ‘60s, a revolutionary group created to defend the civil rights of all people and end institutionalized racism...
Council salutes Olympian 1968 track runners John Carlos and Tommie Smith: New York Daily News - New York, NY, USA
No one held up their fists at this ceremony.
Scorned four decades ago for their famous Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, track greats John Carlos and Tommie Smith were applauded this week as they received City Council proclamations hailing their "achievements and their courageous contributions to the civil rights movement."
New York Daily News: Joint project gives Ugandan orphans the tools to excel
Stephen Shames has spent the last five years trying to put his children through school.
There are more than 70 of them - children, not schools.
An award-winning photojournalist who cut his teeth in the late 1960s as the militant Black Panther Party's official photographer, Shames, 62, is founder of Lead, Educate, Achieve, Dream Uganda (LEAD Uganda) a five-year-old educational and leadership program based in Kampala, Uganda...
Bay Area Indymedia: The Black Hole at KPFA- San Francisco, CA, USA
The April 8-14 issue of the East Bay Express features a 5,576-word cover story on Minister of Information JR who has spoken out on the murders of blacks by law enforcement and has had ties with your muslim bakery. It doesn't bother to actually build a case for how he is a provocateur or who he is a supposed agent for; it's just a hit piece from someone who fancies himself of the "mainstream" perspective and doesn't get where JR is coming from on the issues he covers...
High court rejects Mumia Abu Jamal appeal: FinalCall.com - Chicago, IL, USA
WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The Supreme Court dealt a cruel blow to journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, April 6, denying without comment his appeal to overturn his conviction for the 1981 killing of a White police officer. “The central issue in this case is racism in jury selection,” Robert Bryan, his chief defense attorney wrote to supporters recently. The racially tinged trial which sentenced Mr. Abu Jamal to death was held before a predominantly White jury of 10 Whites and only two Blacks in Philadelphia where 43 percent of the population is Black...
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