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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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…
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Harriet Tubman
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…
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Southern Tenant Farmer Union
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…
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Jalil Muntaqim
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…
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Josh Williams
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…