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CLR James
In celebration of African Heritage Month, for profiles and excellence, we honor CLR James, 1901 to 1989. James was many things over a long distinguished career—revolutionary organizer, historian, professor, journalist, are just some of them.… Full Transcript
Tupac Shakur
Billy Holliday
Moses Fleetwood Walker
Black Women of the Pen
Albizu Campos
Chinua Achebe
Osborne Anderson
Harriet Tubman
Shirley Chisholm
In celebration of African heritage month for profiles in excellence, we honor Shirley Chisholm 1924 to 2005, broke a number of barriers on the battlefield of politics. She was the first Black woman elected to… Full Transcript
Huey Newton
Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran
William Parker
How I Lived, What I Ate
How I lived, what I ate And what I wore is not who I am. My skin is my sin, Which was dealt to me Like a shantytown hustler’s sleight-of-hand win. I ask for my… Full Transcript
Brother Phil Africa MOVE Member 1956-2015
31 JAN.: Celebrate the Life of Phil Africa! ONA MOVE, Everybody. First, let me thank each of you for your genuine and kind words to this family regarding the loss of our brother, Phil Africa.… Full Transcript
After Colony Chaos
It has been decades since the decolonization process in the ‘60s, when African and Arab states, often through armed struggle, broke free of European colonial control. It has been decades, yes but the fires lit… Full Transcript
Ferguson: The Epicenter
Meinen Freunden! Wie Gehts! Bewegung! For tens of thousands of young people in America, protests against police violence and state terrorism is the order of the day. They take to the streets every day, no… Full Transcript