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Celebrating the wisdom, vision and sacrifice of Baba Malcolm always and especially on the centennial of his birth.

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#FreedomDance is back! This isn’t a rally, meeting, conference, or convening. We gather to celebrate our victories, recommit, re-energize and dance! Join us Nov 5th, The People’s Forum, NYC.

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Chadwick Boseman surprises Black Panther fans while they say what the movie means to them.

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Y’all ready for the #BlackNationalConvention? Join us Aug 28, 2020. #BlackNovember

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#InTheSpiritOfPeace - Days after 9/11, the Akan and Yoruba communities came together in #Brooklyn to reflect on the tragedy, and for us, within the larger context of generations of US terrorism. This gathering and expression of our humanity was healing and affirming. So thankful to #AlSantana for documenting it.

My compassion for human suffering is not restricted to these or any national borders.

#911

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WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.

Marshae Jones was shot in 2018 during an argument. She was 5-months pregnant at the time and the trauma ended the pregnancy. While charges were dropped against the shooter, the survivor, Marshae Jones is now being charged with manslaughter for starting the argument. Black and indigenous women are almost always the first targets of policies that attempt to steal autonomy over their own bodies from women. Marshae is clearly the victim in this situation, yet she know faces a hefty prison sentence for being shot. She is being held on a $50,000 bail. This is absolutely disgusting, and we must end both the system of cash bail and the prison industrial complex that seeks to criminalize black, brown, and working class white people at every opportunity. #SayHerName

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The East 50 year anniversary

The first 9 years of my life I, and other children at #UhuruSasaShule (Swahili for Freedom Now School) recited this pledge every morning at the beginning of each school day. We sang freedom songs and pulled down 7 harambes at the beginning an end of each school day. #UhuruSasaShule was Brooklyn’s first contemporary (non faith based) Black independent school. It was created by the brilliant, Black, radical imagination of The East, a Brooklyn based Pan African/Nationalist cultural institution made up of members of the African Teachers Association and the African Students Association in 1969. The East also established a food co-op, bookstore, #BlackNewsNewsPaper, clothing store and was the best place to hear the best Jazz at that time.

Today the members of The East family gathered to celebrate 50 years of African institution building and freedom fighting. Although Uhuru Sasa Shule no longer exists, The East family members remain a committed tight knit collective. I am proud of my East family, my foundation. We will have many more gatherings this year and I will share more about #TheEast and #UhuruSasaShule throughout the year. So when I’m asked when I first became active, I have to answer honestly and say 1972, when I was born. Oh and of course @asaseyaa Killed it!! Thank you 🙏🏿!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excerpt from one of our School songs - “We been educated, trained and taught to prepare for a war that must be fought. At Uhuru Sasa yeah yeah, Freedom Now!”

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Celebrating the birth of two freedom fighters today. Giving thanks for the brilliant leadership and vision of the great #EllaBaker. Born on this day in 1903 and transitioned on this same day in 1986.

Remembering fallen freedom fighter #MarilynBuck on what would have been her 71st birthday. We will never forget you and your contributions to our movement. Thank You!

#ThisIsWhatSolidarityLooksLike #MoreThanAnAlly

#NeverForget

#FreedomFighters

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Period!!

#FreePalestine

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For the wypipo in the back who still don’t get it....

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Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

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#OscarLopez

Statement of solidarity with Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Puerto Rican Parade By the New Afrikan People’s Organization & the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

The New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement stand in solidarity with the decision to honor former Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar LopezRivera at this year’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. For 60 years, the parade has been collective expression of pride and resilience for a nation unjustly held as a colony by the united states for 119 years. Initially created by and for those Puerto Ricans forced to abandon their homeland in the hopes of attaining refuge from the same state sanctioned violence and debt slavery New Afrikans escaped in the South, the parade was a vibrant display of dignity for a people who took to 5th avenue year after year to reaffirm their Puerto Rican nationhood. For 119 years the united states government has enacted a terror campaign on the Puerto Rican people, using them as lab rats for pharmaceutical experiments, cannon fodder for imperialist wars, murdering them for expressing their desire to be free and sterilizing their women against their will. Imposing American citizenship on a people who never asked for it, under the Jones Act of 1917, condemned Puerto Ricans to the role of perpetual second class citizens. Today, the country is crippled by a Wall Street-backed economic debt crisis that seeks to not only blame the Puerto Rican people for the collapse of their economy, but aims to make them give up their land and resources to american hedge funders and banks as a payment strategy developed by the corporate-backed Fiscal Control Board empowered to rule over the island. For 36 years, Oscar Lopez Rivera was held captive by the United States for his involvement in the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. As a member of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) he joined his comrades in a global wave of anti-colonial struggle to liberate not only Puerto Rico, but the captive nations of the global south and those residing inside the united states. Serving time alongside our captive New Afrikan prisoners, Oscar Lopez Rivera demonstrated the mutual respect and solidarity that always existed between our two nations, a bond born out of struggle and blood, under the empire of the united states. As corporations such as Goya, AT&T, JetBlue, and the New York Yankees join the NYPD, Dept. of Corrections and New York Fire Department in pulling​ their support of the parade in protest to the honoring of Oscar Lopez Rivera, we call on all those New Afrikans committed to the liberation of all oppressed people to join the parade on June 11th and stand with Oscar and the people of Puerto Rico in an act of solidarity and a united call to free ALL political prisoners. From the bowels of the empire to the streets of occupied Puerto Rico we say: Free The Land! Free The Land! Free The Land! By any means necessary!

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Old school Caribbean ingenuity today in Old Havana

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Granting commutations to Mutulu Shakur, Leonard Peltier, and Veronza Bowers would log into history the Obama administration’s commitment to healing the political wounds of the past and begin a process that will result in a society committed to rehabilitation, forgiveness, and reconciliation, rather than racial disparate treatment, retribution, and punishment.