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The challenges of Congo advocacy in the 21st century
by Kambale Musavuli Kambale Musavuli breaks the silence about the Congo at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash. As spokesperson and student coordinator for Friends of the Congo, Kambale...
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On racism and unity
by Kiilu Nyasha Kiilu writes about this 1970 photo of famed defense attorney Charles Garry, herself – then known as Pat Gallyot – and Huey P. Newton: “A big thanks to Emory Douglas for sending me this...
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A conversation with the MOI JR, author of ‘Block Reportin’’
by Terez McCall Bay Area journalist JR Valrey has established a reputation by speaking truth to the people through his articles and radio shows. Known as the Minister of Information, his work is...
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Cynthia McKinney on President Obama and Libya, Japan and 9/11 truth
by Cynthia McKinney This brief statement, made March 31 at a press conference at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., between the White House and the Capitol, expands on McKinney’s main story below, under...
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Pierre Labossiere on welcoming Aristide home to Haiti
Interview by Minister of Information JR You are listening to another Block Report with the Minister of Information JR on Hard Knock Radio. Today we’re going to be talking about the country of Haiti....
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Fly Benzo is free, so why is Mendell Plaza a no Fly zone?
by Malaika Kambon Fly Benzo, known for his mentoring of youth, holds Nailah Amari Bey, one of his staunchest supporters. – Photo: Malaika Kambon From Hunters Point to Haiti, Black communities are...
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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ directed by Ayodele ‘Wordslanger’ Nzinga, is...
by Minister of Information JR Storytelling is one of the most ancient forms of entertainment – before radio, television, paper and cinema. Ayodele “Wordslanger” Nzinga is one of the Bay Area’s most...
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The Hilltop View: From sharecropping to predatory lending, banks in the Black...
by Muhammad al-Kareem If businesses are going to survive along the Third Street corridor and other Black business districts, major policy changes must be made by the government to fit the situation and...
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Time traveling: an interview wit’ African historian Runoko Rashidi
by People’s Minister of Information JR Runoko Rashidi Back in the days of chattel slavery, it was illegal for people to teach Africans how to read, to limit the chance that they would acquire a...
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10 things you should know about slavery and won’t learn at ‘Django’
by Imara Jones Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx in “Django Unchained” – Photo: The Weinstein Co. Much hullabaloo has been made recently about slavery as entertainment in movies like “Django Unchained.”...
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U.S. African and Mideast policies: War as foreign aid and regime change as...
by Dhoruba Bin Wahad Africans in the Diaspora are in a crisis of conscience searching for what it means to be “African centered” or Pan-African and citizens of racist nation-states with histories of...
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Cynthia McKinney tours Cali wit’ her new book ‘Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom’
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Six term congresswoman, ‘08 Green Party presidential candidate and international peace activist Cynthia McKinney has been that rare voice in the halls of the...
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Saving Our Future combats high infant and maternal mortality rates among...
by Laura Savage African and African American women face an infant and maternal mortality crisis in America! Infants and maternal mortality rates in these communities are twice as high as the rates for...
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Marcus Garvey, the African Union, the African Diaspora
by Shaka Barak, President, The Marcus Garvey Institute In the year 2014, as we recognize this as the centennial year of the Jamaican, Caribbean born Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s (born Aug. 17,...
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Wanda’s Picks for February 2014
by Wanda Sabir I am recovering from a huge blow – my computer was taken along with other personal irreplaceable items in Carpinteria, a bedroom suburb outside Santa Barbara. We stopped by Loon Point to...
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Alprentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter ‘would have rode with Nat Turner’
by Norman (Otis) Richmond, aka Jalali “If Bunchy had been on the same plantation as Nat Turner, you can believe he would have rode with Nat Turner. That’s the type of person Bunchy was.” – Kumasi Black...
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End the war on Africans: The truth about Eritrea and Ethiopia’s brutal regimes
Warmonger Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia and dictator Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea unite fascist forces to carry out genocide on the people. – Photo: Ghideon Musa Aron, Visafric by Dina Tesfay What took place...
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Reparations are here!
New Ancestor CHARLES EUGENE “GINO” ARMSTRONG with his little brother J. “Harry” Armstrong, now Jahahara Amen-RA Alkebulan-Ma’at, in 1957. – Photo: Baba Jahahara So What You Gonna Do, Family? by Baba...
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In the spirit of liberation for the people: a New Afrikan analysis of Cuba &...
‘Patria o muerte’ – homeland or death. Those three words can be found all over Cuba: on graffiti, murals, government signs, state media, money. While alive, Fidel Castro repeated them often, turning...
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Liberate the Caged Voices
Minister King X stands firm, literally and figuratively, in his mission to free the elders, the political prisoners and organizers of the historic California Hunger Strikes. With his signature banner,...
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