Category Archive: PAN-AFRICAN NEWS

Proposals Aimed at Cutting Social Security and Medicaid to Negatively Impact African Americans

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Obama administration set to abolish CPI, Cola and slash medical coverage for poor and elderly By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Massive cuts are being proposed which will impact the way in which Social… Read More

The Struggle Of African Americans Against Corporate Racism & Oppression In The USA, & The Case Of Assata Shakur

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The Struggle Of African Americans Against Corporate Racism & Oppression In The USA, & The Case Of Assata Shakur With Abayomi Azikiwe & Bernard White Heart Of Africa The Struggle Of African Americans… Read More

Afro-Venezuelan Movement Against Racism and Fascism Support Nicholás Maduro and the Bolivárian Revolution

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By Ann Garrison Audio >> Mural of Hugo Chavéz and his chosen successor Carlós Maduro in Caracás, Venezuela. KPFA Evening News Anchor Cameron Jones: This week in Caracas, Venezuela, opposition leader Henrique Capriles… Read More

African Liberation Day, May 25, 2013

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“The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which, when achieved, will bring… Read More

What It Means To Be Independent

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Innocent Katsande Pan-African News Wire It was after a protracted period of colonial brutality that Africans began to demand their freedom from European settlers. The indigenous people had always resented foreign occupation, in… Read More

Detroit Struggle Escalates Against State Takeover

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Demonstrations, legal action and exposure of the banks take center stage By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Major developments took place during the first official week of emergency management in Detroit. A series of… Read More

Hugo Chavez And The Relevance Of Socialism To Africa With George Shire & Abayomi Azikiwe

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Heart Of Africa Hugo Chavez And The Relevance Of Socialism To Africa – 13 Mar 13 This week Kudakwashe hosts two esteemed guests – Zimbabwean Academic, Post Colonial Critic & Public Intellectual, George Shire &… Read More

Chávez’s Legacy, African Solidarity and the African American People

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The Bolivarian Revolution reaffirms linkages with oppressed around the world Afro-Venezuelans By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° President Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias passed away on March 5, 2013 in the capital city of Venezuela,… Read More

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Historical & Contemporary Consequences with Abayomi Azikiwe & Bernard White

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Heart of Africa Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – Historical & Contemporary Consequences with Abayomi Azikiwe & Bernard White 6 Mar 13 On this week’s programme, Kudakwashe hosts African Historian, Political Analyst, & Editor of… Read More

Voting Rights Act Under Threat Amid Broadening Attacks on African Americans

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Justice Scalia described historic legislation as ‘racial entitlement’ Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Forty-eight years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Supreme Court is currently deliberating the enforcement provision… Read More

The Hidden History of Black Soldiers’ Resistance

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A courageous anti-imperialist tradition Breaking the Chains: Revolutionary Black History An anti-war GI during the Vietnam War Throughout U.S. history, Black people have called out the contradiction of being sent to kill and… Read More

Christopher Dorner and the Revolutionary Struggle for Black Power

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Omali Yeshitela As Obama was eloquently justifying his own contribution to the U.S. legacy of war and colonial deprivation the world over with his State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., made… Read More

1963 Mass Struggles Advanced the Cause of Civil Rights

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From Birmingham to Detroit and Washington, D.C., the people set the world stage Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month Series 2013 In 1963, despite the tremendous campaigns aimed at breaking down… Read More

W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois: Pioneers in the Struggle for Civil Rights, Pan-Africanism and Socialism

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Repression and exile could not silence these global activists and writers W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month Series February 23 marks the 145th… Read More

African-Caribbean Communist Defied Racism, Sexism and Class Oppression

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Claudia Jones Book Review of Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment (2011) Edited by Carole Boyce Davies, Ayebia Clarke Publishing (241 pages) Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Professor Carole Boyce Davies of Cornell University has continued… Read More

Centenary of Rosa L. Parks (1913-2005): “Mother of Civil Rights Movement” Honored in Detroit

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Montgomery woman took decisive action that challenged U.S. apartheid Rosa L. Parks (1913-2005) Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Series 2013 February 4, 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of… Read More

Idle No More | Onkwehon:we Rising’s Statement to the African People’s Solidarity Committee

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admin Jan 17, 2013 Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism January 6, 2013 Whatever criticisms can be made about this movement due to the involvement of neocolonial agents attempting to direct it… Read More

Political Science 101: Reflections On Settler Colonialism, Slavery, Colonialism And Neo-Colonialism

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The Relationship Between United States Domestic And Foreign Policy Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, addressing the national Workers World conference in New York City on November 18, 2012. Azikiwe discussed… Read More