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By:  BY  JAKE OFFENHARTZ

12 March 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A government lawyer asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday to move the legal fight

over the detention of Columbia University graduate student…

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest.

Absolute insanity listening to the Secretary of the DHS struggle to explain why a U.S. permanent resident is being deported for protesting. These are the simpletons that run this country.…

Gaza

Soumaya Ghannoushi, a British-Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics, explains how Israel’s assault on Gaza is not just a war but a deliberate attempt to erase its history, culture, and identity. Ghannoushi argues that what is unfolding is more than mass destruction; it is cultural genocide. More than 200 heritage sites have been obliterated, including ancient mosques, churches,…

Alden McDonald, Jr. is president and CEO of Liberty Bank and Trust Company, one of the top African American-owned

financial institutions in the United States. McDonald oversees an expanding network of financial institutions serving urban communities and provides leadership in community development to a diverse customer base throughout America. He is recognized as a passionate advocate and dynamic catalyst in providing avenues for economic growth,…

Berlin, Germany – The plaque that marks 77 William Street, the building in the German capital where a meeting that forever shaped Africa’s fate took place, is different.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250226_112242-1740573059.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80 270w,…

Without Sanctuary 

Without Sanctuary is a collection of photographs documenting the tragic history of lynching in America. The collection emerged from James Allen’s deep interest in American history and culture. While researching, Mr. Allen discovered that photographs of lynchings were disturbingly common, yet their historical significance and impact had not been widely studied.

OPOW. …

Before Central Park was created, the landscape along what is now the Park’s perimeter from West 82nd to West 89th

Street was the site of Seneca Village, a community of predominantly African-Americans, many of whom owned property. By 1855, the village consisted of approximately 225 residents, made up of roughly…

On Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

All over the globe, and particularly in the u.s., people will be honoring the life and commemorating the assassination of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz/Malcolm X tomorrow on the 21st. 

In an article he posted on 2-19-2025, Ajamu Baraka – Editor of Black Agenda Report and renowned social justice activist – included the following quote of El-Hajj Malik: …

From Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to the U.S. penitentiary in central Florida, those who fought for decades for the release of Turtle Mountain Chippewa activist Leonard Peltier celebrated former President Joe Biden’s decision Monday to grant him clemency.

“Tears of joy. Tears of joy,” said Ivis Long Visitor, a 70-year-old Oglala Lakota man who was at the scene of the June 26, 1975, shootout between members of the American Indian Movement and two FBI agents. “I’m so…