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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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…
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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…