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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US and UN Intervention in Haiti
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Since ousting their French oppressors and achieving independence in 1804, the Haitian people have remained under constant threat of imperialist intervention from the international bourgeois order. From the initial neocolonial robbery in the form of the billions of dollars extracted from Haiti to…
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Following the victory of the Haitian Revolution, the entire island of Ayiti/Quisqueya was joined by Haitian efforts to stop once and for all European domination over the island, and the understanding that “fighting for the other was fighting for oneself” (Sophie Mariñez) was…
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Haiti’s History of Resistance
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Last year, on the first day of our 28 Days of Black Liberation program, GDC highlighted the Haitian Revolution as a pivotal part of Black revolutionary history in America. This year, we will dedicate an entire week to Haiti, exploring its legacy of…
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1919 to today: How Have the Conditions Changed?
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series A Black Person is murdered by America every day, whether by racial violence, police violence, the carceral system (including ICE), lack of housing, healthcare system or environmental racism. Everyday a Black person is murded globally because of America. No continent or country is…
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If We Must Die & Art as a Political Commitment
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series If We Must Die was written by Claude McKay in 1919 in response to the mob murders of the Red Summer. He published it in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator, a communist magazine whose editor was a good friend of his.…
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The Red Summer: A history of Gun Control
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series During the Red Summer, white gun shop owners barred Black people from buying guns in some areas to try to stop them from being able to protect themselves & to prevent the Black insurrection they feared. Gun control in the US has been…
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Red Summer, Red Scare
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series The Red Summer took place during of the First Red Scare, a time of widespread fear of left-wing movements due partly to real events like the Russian Revolution of 1917, the German Revolution of 1918, anarchist bombings of politicians and bosses, and successful…
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The Red Summer of 1919: Political Borders and a Manufactured Migration Crisis
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series Over one million Black Americans migrated to the north during and after slavery; The Chicago Defender titled this mass migration The Exodus. For centuries Black Americans were hunted, killed and tortured just for trying to move. This migration was not just about safety…
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The Red Summer of 1919: An Overview
28 Days of Black Liberation 2025 series This week, we’ll explore the context and legacy of the Red Summer. The Red Summer was a time from April to September of 1919 when racist white mobs attacked, killed, and terrorized Black people throughout the country. In some places, local and state…
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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…