Yearly Archives: 2023

UHURU RALPH POYNTER.    PRESENTE! It is with a profound mixture of many emotions that the Black Is Back Coalition informs our supporters of the death of one of our fearless, and stalwart freedom fighters, Ralph Poynter, the Co-Chair of the BIB Political Prisoners Working Group, the founder of the Lynne Stewart Committee, and the co-founder of the New Abolitionist Movement.  He made his transition to the ancestral realm on 12/25/23. Ralph created a body of work spanning decades.   One of the struggles that he made a life commitment to was public education, and he was one of the lead organizers in the fight in the 1960s in NYC  for a decentralized school system and Black community control of school boards.    …

  The Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations (BIBC) SALUTES  the brave, visionary  youth warriors of West Orange High  High School, Teaneck High School, and Rutgers University in New Jersey for their tremendous courage in standing up and speaking truth to power in support of Palestine, in the face of ruthless opposition from the Zionists in the state. All the settler colonialist project named the United States seeks to leave for today’s youth and future generations is an overburdened debt load, a  militarized society  of never ending war and immense poverty, in which the needs of the people are subverted to the military industrial complex and Wall Street.    Much of this upcoming generation, especially those who are…