General Defense Committee

Day 11 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series The Jericho Movement aims to recognize and amplify the existence of political prisoners, prisoners of war, and politicized prisoners within the United States. A political prisoner is…

Day 10 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Born in 1949 in Chicago, Gil Scott-Heron was a jazz poet, singer, musician, author, rap pioneer, and spoken-word performer. Best known for his album, “Pieces of a…

Day 9 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series  Born in 1939 Toni Cade Bambara was very concerned about the wholeness of black/afrikan folk and the responsibilities attached to that wholeness. In one of her best…

Day 8 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series OMAR DIOP is a Senegalese photographer whose work honors Black culture and the history of resistance. His first career was in finance, but after picking up street…

Day 7 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series The Sojourner’s for Truth and Justice were led by fourteen radical organizers such as Communist Party leader Louise Thompson Patters, W.E.B Du Bois’ wife Shirley Graham Du Bois,…

Day 6 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Born in 1898 in New Jersey; son of an escaped Igbo slave, Reverend William Robeson and Quaker Schoolteacher of mixed ancestry, Maria Bustill, Paul Robeson was an…

Day 5 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Black intellectual tradition has given so much to the rest of the world … but this is often invisible”. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is a revolutionary Kenyan novelist and…

Day 4 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Amilcar Cabral once said about black/african culture & the poet: “The universal value of African culture is now an incontestable fact; nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that…

Day 3 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Day 3 brings us to what is now called Guyana on February 27th 1763, when those enslaved at Plantation Magdalenenberg rose up and killed their white plantation…

Day 2 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series African unity was only possible with national liberation. The battle of Cuito Cuanavale was a critical turning point in the struggle for African liberation and against apartheid.…