This was an eye opening lecture on why we (I) need to lean-in more deeply on #BlackCulture as a source of humanizing #blackpower. #blackpoets #blackartists #blackscientists

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/22/trump-black-arts-culture-crackdown?CMP=share_btn_url

✊🏽actu militante✊ Le Black Power face à la violence: -- Frmr4LCF8E0?version=3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frmr4LCF8E0&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackPower #Violence #Histoire #Culture #Musique

✊🏽actu militante✊ Le Black Power face à la violence: -- Frmr4LCF8E0?version=3 #BlackPower #Violence #Histoire #Culture #Musique

Le Black Power face à la viole...

#juneteenth is a celebration for all people.
It is the day of liberation for Black people in America (freeish), it is you accepting the truth of who enslaved and oppressed African people and their descendants, and is the liberation of your mind free from the lies and the indoctrination of white supremacy.
#freedomday #blacklivesmatter #blackpower

Various – The Tamla-Motown Sound! (Sampler; 1967); Ein energiegeladener Sampler, der das goldene Zeitalter des legendären Labels auf den Punkt bringt. Mit Hits von Künstlern wie The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder und The Four Tops bietet die Compilation eine stilprägende Mischung aus Soul, Pop und Rhythm & Blues. #Motown #DianaRoss #MarvinGaye #TheTemptations #Soul #Funk #BlackPower #Sixties #Groove #ProtestSongs #BlackHistory #IHaveADream

Wow. And: Yes, that! #BLM #BlackPower https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK4V33rg7vl/

#OTD Am 13. Juni 1980 kaltblütig von Agenten der Regierung von Guyana ermordet: #WalterRodney, Black Power-Vordenker und Aktivist, den das weiße Europa zu wenig kennt. »Dekolonialer Marxismus« gibt seinen wichtigen Schriften aus der panafrikanischen Revolution die Stimme zurück: https://dietzberlin.de/dekolonialer-marxismus

#walterrodney #rassismus #dekolonial #kolonialismus #kapitalismus #antikolonial #panafricanism #blackpower #blackhistory #marx #karlmarx #daskapital #buchtipp #dekolonialermarxismus

Inviting the #Fediverse to join another #Jabber / #XMPP channel I co-moderate - the #BlackLivesMatter channel! Another initiative by the wonderful @maskedwitch

You can join without a client or an account! Just visit - https://chat.queer-spark.org/#/guest?join=blm@conference.queer-spark.org

But for the best experience, I recommend using a proper client. The easiest way is to install Quicksy or Prāv, if you don’t mind using your phone number. Alternatively, install one or more of the following, and use them to register an account on conversations.im (see https://providers.xmpp.net or https://compliance.conversations.im/old for more server recommendations) -

• Monocles Chat, Cheogram, or Conversations on modern Android devices (They’re paid on app stores, free of cost on F-Droid)
• Yaxim or Bruno on old/low-end Android devices
• Monal or Siskin on iOS
• Gajim on Linux and Windows
• Monal on Mac
• Movim or ConverseJS in the browser
• Poezio or Profanity in the terminal
• Convo on KaiOS/JioPhone

…when you’re set up, open this link to join the channel! https://invite.joinjabber.org/#blm@conference.queer-spark.org?join

If you’re new to XMPP (e.g. coming from #WhatsApp #Matrix #IRC #Signal #Telegram #Discord etc), this guide has everything you need to get started - https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html

#BoostsAppreciated #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackPower #Federated #FreedomRespecting #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS

#BlackLivesMatter #GeorgeFloyd #ICantBreathe #RechtsExtremismus #Faschismus #BlackPower #EqualRights #Trump #MAGA

Malcolm X: Foundational Black Internationalism and the Anti-Imperialism of the Black Alliance for Peace

Malcolm X didn’t just fight for Black liberation—he waged war on empire itself. As U.S. militarism tightens its grip on Africa and beyond, his revolutionary internationalism burns brighter than ever, exposing the ‘house Negroes’ who betray our struggle for a decolonized future.

White supremacist, patriarchal capitalist settler colonial imperialism dehumanizes the world. This dehumanization has met fierce constant resistance over time. Malcolm X stands out as one of our greatest warriors in the fight for Decolonization, Black power, Revolutionary Pan-Africanism and Internationalism, which have all been a part of the struggle to re-humanize us. This month, as we commemorate the 67th anniversary of African Liberation Day , the 77th anniversary of Nakba Day and  the centenary of Malcolm’s birth, we highlight some of his contributions.

Malcolm, understanding the ideological struggle as the most crucial struggle, always demanded that we think for ourselves. He always pointed out that the western press was one of the most powerful tools used to brainwash people into condoning the crimes of U.S. imperialism. In this regard Malcolm played a huge role in helping us to decolonize our thinking in many ways. 

He told African/Black people in the U.S., “Because you can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree, you can’t hate your origin and not hate yourself, you can’t hate Africa and not end up hating yourself.” This is part of the struggle against internalized racism and oppression that Malcolm and others helped us wage because they understood that centuries of white supremacist patriarchal capitalism has created complexes in us that forms part of what Frantz Fanon called “germs of mental rot” that must be clinically detected and uprooted.

Malcolm said , “You can’t understand what is going on in Mississippi if you don’t understand what is going on in the Congo. And you can’t really be interested in what’s going on in Mississippi if you’re not also interested in what’s going on in the Congo. They’re both the same. The same interests are at stake. The same sides are drawn up, the same schemes are at work in the Congo that are at work in Mississippi. The same stake — no difference whatsoever.” Again he was helping us in our Pan-African Internationalist analysis.

This principle is also one that the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) holds dear and is expressed through its Africa Team and the US Out of Africa Network Steering Committee and its U.S. Out of Africa: Shut Down AFRICOM campaign to get the US military out of the African continent.

AFRICOM is one of 11 US military combatant command centers that coordinate its military power covering all continents for the purpose of achieving full spectrum dominance . As usual, US imperialism never fails to use, as Malcolm would say, a few “house negroes” to do its dirty work thereby confusing and getting consent from some of our people by putting a Black face in leadership positions of its criminal war mongering. In the case of AFRICOM it is General Michael Langley who recently vilified one of Africa’s new hopeful anti-imperialist Pan-Africanists, Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso. In the case of SOUTHCOM it is Admiral Alvin Holsey who is also faithfully carrying out US military directives in the Americas in accordance with the 202-year-old Monroe doctrine, a criminal US policy of hemispheric neo-colonialism and domination.

We see this dynamic in the savage murder of brother Tyre Nichols , beaten to death by Black Memphis police who were acquitted, a 21st century example of Black overseers during the time of chattel slavery. During slavery on large plantations slave labor was directed by an overseer as sometimes the owner was absent. These overseers were usually white men but sometimes they were enslaved Africans/Blacks promoted to overseer or “driver” .  The murderers of Tyre Nichols and the presence of the Michael Langleys of the world show that we still have those overseers and “drivers” among us today.

Although they’re a small percentage, the list of house negroes, overseers and compradors is unfortunately too long to list but if we are faithful to our revolutionary internationalist, Pan Africanist tradition, and in the tradition of Malcolm in particular we must continue to unmask them and call them out publicly. We have to understand that there are sometimes obvious, and sometimes not so obvious counterrevolutionary obstacles to our liberation and world peace. Our job is to engage in a struggle of ideas and values among our people that produces a culture where being a present day overseer, house negro or neo-colonial puppet is something to be detested and ashamed of. 

Kwame Ture said that Malcolm was the first person he heard speak out against the war in Vietnam. Malcolm took a strong position against the draft at the time, likely leading to his good friend Muhammad Ali taking the same position and refusing to be drafted, thereby also refusing to become cannon fodder for US imperialist bloody crimes . By this courageous stance Muhammad Ali sacrificed his title and might have been imprisoned had the Supreme Court not overturned his draft evasion conviction.

Even before he broke with the Nation of Islam (NOI) Malcolm hosted a solidarity meeting with Fidel Castro in Harlem in 1960 and praised the Cuban revolution as a “real revolution.” It is again also reflective of the anti-imperialist solidarity that BAP exemplifies with anti-colonial people struggling for human rights in the Caribbean, South America and around the world. The Black Alliance for Peace Haiti Americas Team has continued strong solidarity and educational work building a Zone of Peace with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)   and People’s Centered Human Rights groups in nations such as Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Malcolm gave a lecture at the London School of Economics less than two weeks before he was killed where he again showed his strong line on internationalism by lifting up  the “spirit of Bandung” referring to the conference held in 1955 of African and Asian leaders in Bandung, Indonesia, who were unified in making an anti-colonial statement. Two of the leaders of this conference, presidents Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt and Jawaharlal Nehru of India went on to organize the Non-Aligned movement which eventually developed into the founding of the Tri-Continental Conference in revolutionary Cuba in 1966.     

Malcolm understood that the concept of Human Rights was one used by the United Nations in their “Universal Declaration of Human Rights ” and that in order for any grievance to be heard they have to be classified as human rights and not civil rights. As long as rights were considered “civil” they would remain in the jurisdiction of a particular government. This led Malcolm to take his grievance of human rights abuses suffered by African Americans to the 1964 meeting of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) on behalf of his Organization of African American Unity (OAAU) and African Americans so that the OAU could then take it to the UN. One of the objectives of the OAAU was to come up with a program to make our grievances international, thereby making them a problem of humanity and the world, and not merely of the U.S.

Malcolm’s commitment to human rights reflects a revolutionary approach that transcends Western liberalism and centers anti-colonialism and revolutionary struggle to realize People(s)-Centered Human Rights. This is also a line that BAP has continued with the establishment of its North-South People’s centered Human Rights campaign .

It was also on his 1964 trip to Africa and the Middle East that Malcolm traveled to Palestine and during his stay in Egypt met the leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) who educated him on the history of Israeli Zionist settler colonialism, prompting him to advocate for the support of the Palestinian struggle against Israeli apartheid. He wrote an essay, Zionist Logic , and he once again led the way in helping us through his example of international solidarity to decolonize our thinking and actions.

Malcolm explained that in the U.S. the press and many people refer to this country as America and because of U.S. exceptionalism not acknowledging that America is a continent not a country. He goes on to talk about the important fact that there are more Black people in Brazil than there are in the U.S. and combined with all the other South American and Caribbean countries the force of the Black population united is a potential force against the Empire.

He also elaborated on Congo where he exposed the neo-colonial proxy killers of Patrice Lumumba like Moise Tshombe and Mobutu Sese Seko and explained that the US paid mercenaries who were committing mass murder dropping bombs on African villages but he said there was no outcry even from white liberals because they made it appear that it was a humanitarian project.  He warned that,“They will do it to them today and do it to you tomorrow.”  Malcolm was prophetic. History would record that 20 years after his death the Philadelphia police department under direction of the first Black mayor, dropped a bomb on the MOVE organization 40 years ago this month killing 6 adults and 5 children.

In conclusion, The Black Alliance for Peace follows in the tradition of the Black Radical anti-war movement which is absolutely needed if one agrees with Dr. King’s statement that the US is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, and all thinking people do. According to The Black Alliance for Peace Principles of Unity , “Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement by popular struggle and self-defense of a world liberated from the interlocking issues of global conflict, nuclear armament and proliferation, unjust war, and subversion through the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.”

Opposing the U.S. orchestrated war perpetrated domestically against Black, Latinx, indigenous and poor people through police terror, mass incarceration, and poverty and internationally with its over 800 military bases and its murderous economic sanctions is something that all peace loving people should oppose.

For more information on Black Alliance for Peace, go to blackallianceforpeace.com

Djibo Sobukwe  is a member of Black Alliance for Peace on the Africa and Political Education Teams

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19283

#blackLiberation #blackPower #malcolmX #northAmerica

🕯️ Vor 100 Jahren wurde Malcolm X geboren. Vom Gefängnis zum Sprecher der „Nation of Islam“ – sein Leben war geprägt von Wandel und Kampf. Die Umstände seiner Ermordung 1965 werfen bis heute Fragen auf. 👉 www.migazin.de/2025/05/18/r... #MalcolmX #BlackPower #Zivilgesellschaft

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It a real shame that sum pro black accounts on this app go private so they don't get racist abuse.
Fk that i fcking post what i want . Bring it on 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
#blacklivesmatter #blackpower #blackmastadon 👊🏾

Walter Rodney, 1980 ermordet, schuf bahnbrechende Forschung zum Zusammenhang von Kolonialismus, Sklaverei, Rassismus in Afrika & der Karibik und dem globalen Kapitalismus. Am 17.05. gibt Bafta Sarbo ein Seminar zu ihm in bei der @rosaluxstiftung Hamburg: https://hamburg.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/8WCLK/leseseminar-zu-walter-rodney-mit-bafta-sarbo - - - Tipp!! Wir empfehlen von ihm zur panafrikanischen Revolution: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/dekolonialer-marxismus

#walterrodney #kolonialismus #kapitalismus #rassismus #sklaverei #blackpower #panafricanism #marx #karlmarx #anticapitalism

Two weeks from today Firestorm will have the honor of hosting an incredible online panel for the release of historian Garrett Felber's new book with AK Press. "A Continuous Struggle" chronicles the life of Martin Sostre, an under appreciated legend in the history of anti-prison and Black freedom movements.

Garrett will be joined by writer William C. Anderson ("The Nation On No Map") and revolutionary elder Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin ("Anarchism and the Black Revolution"). Together they'll discuss Sostre's incredible life and legacy as a jailhouse lawyer, revolutionary bookseller, yogi, mentor and teacher, anti-rape organizer, housing justice activist, and original political thinker.

Don't miss this event! You can sign up and find a copy of "A Continuous Struggle" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3372-the-revolutionary-life-of-martin-sostre.html. Can't make the event live? Register anyway and we'll send you a recording when we post it!

#BlackFreedomMovement #BlackAnarchism #PoliticalPrisoners #BlackPower #FeministBookstore #PrisonAbolition #MartinSostre #LorenzoKomboaErvin #FirestormCoop (- L)

To any audiophiles out there. This was very spiritual. Dropped last week on Friday: https://youtu.be/CEklXBuRc6A?si=I6Hel-RKeUbCHPPG

#BlackPower #Freedom #afrohouse

« Aux côtés du président guinéen et de leaders indépendantistes, dont Kwame Nkrumah et Amílcar Cabral, la chanteuse sud-africaine et le leader états-unien du #BlackPower ont forgé leur pensée panafricaniste et contribué à faire le pont avec les luttes états-uniennes. »

#ElaraBertho | #UnCouplePanafricaniste : #MiriamMakeba et #StokelyCarmichael en Guinée

https://afriquexxi.info/Stokely-Carmichael-et-Miriam-Makeba-en-exil-et-en-lutte-chez-Sekou-Toure

#BlackHistory #KwameTure #PanthèresNoires #apartheid #GuinéeConakry #panafricanisme #livres @bookstodon

Grounding Our Purpose: The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference

The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) continues the legacy of Black radical resistance, uniting organizers to confront imperialism, capitalism, and white supremacy while building an independent path toward collective liberation. The gathering in Indiana – 53 years after the historic National Black Political Convention –  reaffirms that our freedom lies not in reforming a broken system but in dismantling it and forging a revolutionary future.

In March 1972, on the heels of the Black Freedom Movement, nearly ten thousand Black people, including organizers, activists, politicians, and artists, convened in Gary, Indiana, for the National Black Political Convention (NBPC). Similar to today, they faced the failure of the two-party duopoly, rising inflation, growing economic crisis, an unpopular imperialist war, counterattacks on our movements, and a pressing need for political clarity. Among the NBPC’s goals was to build an independent Black Agenda. While they achieved this goal by producing a National Black Agenda, class and ideological factions ultimately weakened the ability to organize around it. Thus, the appetite for political clarity and strategy sought at the ‘72 conference still eats at us as we meet in Indiana 53 years later. 

The Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) is an attempt, as many have done before us, to create a space to discuss, debate, train, assess, and create a collective way forward for Black/African/New Afrikan organizations and organizers who believe that our struggle for self-determination is paramount to our survival. We understand that without organized political power, we will not collectively achieve affordable housing, an environmentally sustainable planet, life-affirming education, land sovereignty, food justice, and economic security. We do not look to be integrated, assimilated, or incorporated into America but to liberate ourselves from it. By Any Means Necessary!

The Black Radical Tradition- the opposition to empire, imperialism, patriarchy, and capitalism as we fight for self-determination- is under attack, and we must fight back. Our enemies are working hard to appropriate and neutralize our historical traditions, symbols, and narratives of resistance. This was on full display at the Democratic National Convention and throughout the ill-fated Harris Campaign, where many of our symbols and s/heros, like Fannie Lou Hamer, Frantz Fanon, and W.E.B DuBois, were grossly misappropriated to support their imperialist agenda and justify the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. The Republicans and their ilk are no better, as their overt white nationalist stance presents a clear and present danger to our people. Going forward, our movement must draw some clear lines in the sand against the two parties of imperialism and the notion that engaging the two-party system is the only legitimate path to accomplish our goals.

We are clear that our enemy is organized. They invade us for charting our own path, imprison us for defending ourselves against them, starve us for profits, expel us for questioning their history, and deprive our bodies of freedom for exercising our own choices. They are organized through military budgets, campaign contributions, banking institutions, governmental laws, and media propaganda. Capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy are nothing but expressions of an organized enemy. An enemy that has left us bargaining for crumbs each election cycle.

The first National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC) was convened in Atlanta in June 2023. We aim for BROC to serve as a place for an ongoing collective process to provide greater political clarity for our movement and our people. We need to make it clear that to be a Black Radical is to be a revolutionary and that being a revolutionary means being committed to the struggle to end capitalism, white supremacy, colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy. It means building for our collective liberation by developing our institutions to construct a socialist future through organizing the Black working class, building new social movement trade unions that serve the interests of our people, independent Black political power,  participatory democracy, solidarity economics, and ecologically regenerative practices to situate us in the right relationship with Mother Earth. To be successful, our praxis – theory and practice – must be dialectical and material. We must have a solid class analysis and a deep understanding of dynamic and generative culture that constantly returns us to our African source(s) and moves us forward towards a love supreme.

Therefore, we will gather to forge an independent base beyond the two-party duopoly. We insist that we must advance clear revolutionary nationalist, Pan-African, and internationalist perspectives. Our liberation will not come from trying to reform American institutions or political parties. It will be born out of defeating US imperialism and dismantling the systems of capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy—nothing short of it.

At this conference, we will help organizers further establish the skills to build a base beyond the duopoly. We will sharpen our methods of strategy, hone our communication skills, refine our ethics, strengthen our analysis, identify our needs, and bring new people along with us.

Despite its many shortcomings, the 1972 National Black Political Convention provided a space to activate political imagination. We are organizing this conference to give our people the space to enter and grow. We recognize that everyone enters the struggle at their own level with the ambition to contribute more. Here, we want to nurture that ambition because we can win only with the masses’ invigorated participation!

The National Black Radical Organizing Conference will be held May 30 – June 1st at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is sponsored by representatives Black Alliance for Peace, Community Movement Builders, National Black Liberation Movement, Black Men Build, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Cooperation Jackson, and more to be announced. Registration is now open.

source: Black Agenda Report

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18493

#blackLiberation #blackPower #northAmerica #resistance #us

#blackpower #blacklivesmatters #widerstand