General Defense Committee

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 in his homeland caused by political corruption as well as environmental and…

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 Cyril Briggs, who wrote for The Crusader; a newspaper started out of…

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 a middle-class, politically active family in Baltimore, Maryland that later moved to…

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 in Oakland, California, and later joined the Black Liberation Army. She grew…

Day 19 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series While the United States commemorates Harriet Tubman today, in her lifetime her struggle for the liberation of enslaved Africans had her in the crosshairs of the state. Tubman was a revolutionary military strategist and guerrilla fighter who was a…

Day 18 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Black tenant farmers in the 1930s had all the reason in the world to resist capitalism. As anti-capitalist struggles took hold globally, these ideas found fertile soil in the hearts and minds of Black farmers in the southern United…

Day 17 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Jalil Muntaqim was born in 1951 in Oakland, CA and as a teenager joined the Black Panther Party. After the assassination of MLK he came to believe that armed resistance was the only way to achieve Black self-determination, and subsequently…

Day 16 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Joshua Williams is a political prisoner who protested and fought back against police terrorism during the Ferguson uprising of 2014. His favorite color is red and his album at the time was Lil Durk’s “7220.” A deeply communal and…

Day 15 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Safiya Bukhari is legendary in the movement to free Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. When she transitioned to the ancestors in 2003, Mumia Abu-Jamal referred to her as the Lioness for Liberation. She was a leader in the Black…

Day 14 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Sekou Odinga was a Black revolutionary and political prisoner, born in 1944 in New York City.  “My name is Sekou Odinga. Some of us have never agreed to be American and have struggled to free and build the Republic…