Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص's Blog – July 2023 Archive (15)

To God we belong and to Him we return. Our sister Shuhada Sadaqat, better known as Sinéad O’Conner died at the age of

56. May God shower His mercy on her soul. May she find rest and peace after her fearless but difficult life. In this picture from @irishtimesnews she is accepting a national award in Ireland earlier this year for her hit album ‘I do not want what I haven’t got’ which featured her most successful song…

As Israel's President travelled to DC yesterday to address a Joint Session of Congress, my soon to be 97yr old (InshAllah) grandfather came back to 63rd Street to join me in a facilitated conversation at …

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,…

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

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…

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

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…