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Day 13 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 Born 1962 in Brooklyn NY, Reverend Joyce Blake Powell is a Pentecostal pastor, activist, organizer, mother, writer and poet. A black woman targeted by the state because of her activism. The cousin of Kamau Sadiki who served as an introduction…

Day 12 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series Born in 1953, Kamau Sadiki is a loving father, grandfather, Muslim, veteran Black Panther and member of the New Afrikan Independence movement. He has been unjustly imprisoned since 2001.    At the age of 17, Sadiki joined the Black Panther…

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 someone who is imprisoned for their political beliefs that go against the…

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 Man,” released in 1971 which included the widely praised and renown song,…

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 descriptions of this wholeness, Bambara, speaks on black women, the issues of…

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 photography as a side hobby, he rediscovered his love of art and…

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, and California Eagle editor Charlotta Bass. Many of the Sojourners were part…

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 acclaimed college athlete, world renown performer of theater/film, political activist, and victim…

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 was once a political prisoner in Kenya. He is known for writing…

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 African [hu]man whose hands, as the poet said, ‘placed the stones of…