General Defense Committee

Day 28 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Martin Sostre was a revolutionary and a progenitor of Black Anarchism whose versatile politics transformed incarcerated organizing and laid the foundation for Black Autonomy. Born in Harlem…

Day 27 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Andrée Blouin was born on December 16th, 1921, in the French Colony of Ubangi-Shari, today known as the Central African Republic. Due to the French colonial policies…

Day 26 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Aline Sitoé Diatta was known for her super powers. Her powers… the ability to make it rain when the land needed it the most. It was also…

Day 25 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series “History from time to time brings to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was…

Day 24 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Mae Mallory, born 1927 in Georgia, was one of the thousands of African Americans who moved North in hopes of finding jobs as well as evading racism…

Day 23 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Ken Saro-Wiwa, born October 10, 1941 in the Ogoniland of Bori, was a Nigerian author, television producer and environmental activist that brought widespread attention to the plight…

Day 22 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) was a militant black liberation group that was formulated in 1919 by Marxist journalist and Afro-Caribbean American…

Day 21 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Gloria Richardson was a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a dynamic advocate for the dismantlement of the white power structure. She was born into…

Day 20 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Assata Olugbala Shakur (born 1947 as Joanne Deborah Byron) was a Black Liberation fighter, author, and a political fugitive who was formerly apart of the Black Panthers…