Yearly Archives: 2018

Our Brother Saladin has been a  freedom fighter for our people’s liberation and workers power for more than 50 years.  Besides the Black Workers For Justice, that he helped found and given of his heart and soul for the last 35 years, he has helped to found and built several organizations and coalitions.  His perseverance, principled stands, ferocity, concentration and dedication are legendary.  There are many of us who he has helped personally  - giving of his time, energy, resources and spirit. As you may or may not know, because Saladin pretty much kept it to himself, he has been fighting a personal battle against  Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a form of blood cancer that has now come back out of remission. He…

Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report interviews Chairman Omali Yeshitela: The Atlanticist bloc, with NATO as its military arm, is coming undone, said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition. President Trump’s verbal assaults on Washington’s European and Canadian allies at the recent G7 summit showed that “there’s a fraying of much of the arrangement that was established under the Atlanticist project” after World War Two. The rise of China as the world’s economic center has created an “every white man for himself” mentality, said Yeshitela. Click text to listen

ON AUGUST 11 AND 12, HUNDREDS OF BLACK PEOPLE FROM THROUGHOUT THE U.S. WILL GATHER IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI FOR THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BLACK IS BACK COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, PEACE AND REPARATIONS (BIBC). THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE IS: “THERE IS NO PEACE: AFRICA AND AFRICANS ARE AT WAR! … U.S. TO THE WORLD: ‘COMPLY OR DIE!’” THIS THEME RECOGNIZES THE UNRELENTING WAR THAT IS BEING MADE BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE – ON THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA AND THROUGHOUT THE U.S. -- IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES. LIKE OTHER OPPRESSED AND COLONIZED PEOPLES OF THE WORLD THE BLACK IS BACK COALITION ALSO DEMANDS SELF-DETERMINATION FOR BLACK PEOPLE IN THE U.S. JOIN THE COALITION IN…