28 Days of Black Liberation
The GDC celebrates the Black liberation struggle and draws inspiration and lessons from its proud history in our struggle for the new world we are fighting for. In February as we celebrate Black revolutionary culture, political prisoners, international figures and struggles, and moments in direct action that guide us in our continued, collective fight for liberation!
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Malcolm X
Bonus Day 29 of the 28 Days of Black Liberation 2024 series “When the New Afrikan ghettos rose in rebellion, Malcolm X was the only major figure whose leadership was actually acknowledged by the people in the streets. A 1964 N.Y. Times report said: “Malcolm is regarded as an implacable…
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Martin Sostre
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 in 1923, Sostre grew up listening to his father “talk communism” and…
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Andrée Blouin
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 concerning mixed race children—Blouin’s mother was African, and her father was French—Blouin…
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Aline Sitoé Diatta
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 said that she was a healer and she would have visions frequently.…
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Steve Biko
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 Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of…
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Mae Mallory
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 and segregation that was so prevalent in the south – yet Mae…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
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…
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African Blood Brotherhood
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…
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Gloria Richardson
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…
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Assata Shakur
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…