July 2023 Blog Posts (28)

BBC's The Documentary: Women’s Football – Passion versus profit

The Euros 2022 saw the Lionesses finally ‘bring it home’ - the excitement and crowd numbers showed there was a huge demand for women’s football…

The United States' Alex Morgan (left) and the Netherlands' Stefanie van der Gragt challenge for the ball during the Women's World Cup final soccer match between the U.S. and the Netherlands.

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Added by Abu Ruyaa on July 19, 2023 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Straight Ahead: The Life of Resistance of Dr. Mutulu Shakur

By: Sheikh Akinyele Umoja

Keywords: acupuncture, Herman Ferguson, international solidarity, internationalism,

Malcolm X, May 19th Communist Organization, Mutulu Shakur, Nehanda Abiodun,

New Afrikan Independence Movement, political prisoners, Republic of New Afrika,

resistance, revolutionary nationalism, social movements,…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 17, 2023 at 3:00pm — 8 Comments

Tribute to Dr. Mutulu Shakur, hosted by WPFW/WBAI Human Rights & Justice #44 recorded 7-12-23

Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 16, 2023 at 10:11pm — 5 Comments

African American History...Bethune-Cookman University

Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 16, 2023 at 9:40pm — 1 Comment

California Named After Black Queen Califia...1510...

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 13, 2023 at 6:00am — 3 Comments

The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation (ETLF)

The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation (ETLF) honors the memory of Emmett Till who, at only 14 years old, was kidnapped,

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brutally tortured, lynched and killed in 1955 during a racially-motivated hate crime. Our mission is to bring truth, justice and healing, which can mean a full accounting of crimes committed and exhaustive investigations, to the families of victims of unsolved murders committed during the civil rights era. This era is roughly 1954 to 1969 but suspicious…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 12, 2023 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

One cannot only condemn the actions the oppressed without also condemning the actions of the oppressor

While MLK Jr.’s statements about riots were misappropriated to justify the riots and looting in the US after the death of

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Freedom is never voluntarily...

George Floyd, the irony is that the French, along with so many other European nations, celebrated those very riots during the summer of 2020 in the US. MLK Jr. condemned riots, indiscriminate violence, and the destruction and theft of property denouncing them as ineffective ways to resolve one’s grievances. His…

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Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 3, 2023 at 8:55am — 1 Comment

Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action in Colleges But Keeps It for Military Academies

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The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has declared race-conscious admissions policies at colleges and universities across the country to be unlawful, effectively ending affirmative action in education. The landmark 6-3 ruling was along ideological lines and strikes down decades of precedent,… Continue

Added by Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص on July 1, 2023 at 8:00am — 1 Comment