Monthly Archives: April 2016

END STATE TERRORISM AGAINST AFRICAN WOMEN – Forum Saturday, April 30th in New York City

African Women are systemically under attack. From being subjected to police terrorism on a par with their African male counterpart, to being targeted by the World Health Organization and the medical establishment with deadly birth control (Depo Provera) known to cause sterilization and increase the spread aids. Black women are being targeted for genocide. • A mother's teenage son is removed from her home and convicted of a rape for which there was not a shred of evidence linking him to the crime, while in the meantime he and his family are vilified nationwide for a crime he did not commit;  a grandmother is getting dressed for work as police throw a flash grenade into her apartment (which was the wrong apartment) -- she…

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BIB 2016 Elections and The Struggle for Self-determination Photos

The Black Is Back Coalition held its’ National Conference with the theme of the 2016 Elections and The Struggle for Self-determination on April 9th in Harlem, NY. Speakers included the Black Is Back Coalition’s Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report, Zaki Baruti of the Universal African People’s Organization, Nellie Bailey of the Harlem Tenants’ Council and others. The event was filled with organizations and individuals from around the country who felt the need to have questions surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential elections addressed from the perspective of the Black Is Back Coalition.

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Mother’s day march to Albany for the wrongfully incarcerated, May 8, leaving from the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building in Harlem

Join me, Sharonne Salaam, the mother of Yusef Salaam, a young Black man that spent 12 years behind bars for something he didn’t do. I need your help. On Mother’s Day, May 8, 2016, Justice 4 the Wrongfully Incarcerated will be walking to Albany, New York for legislative change on behalf of the wrongfully incarcerated and their families.  (Please click here to register if you wish to participate).   Some of the legislative changes we seek include accountability for all Judges, Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs), and police officers. We ask for a review of all cases worked on by the police and ADAs that led to wrongful incarceration. We seek an elimination of blanket immunity offered judges, ADA’s and police in these cases.…

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