On this special 100th episode of Black Power Talks we uplift African Liberation Day.  African Liberation Day is May 25.  May 25, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the first African Liberation Day mobilizations in the United States.  May 25, 2022 also marks the 50th anniversary of the African People’s Socialist Party. As African Internationalists, we know that Africa is not free and that the Organization of African Unity, now rebranded the African Union (AU), served the colonial and...

On part two of our reparations series, we lift up a leader in the struggle for reparations to African People, Queen Mother Audley Moore.  Elements of the reparation demand go back to the 19th century.  Yet, in 1957, Queen Mother Moore gave the struggle an important mass character and organization when she formed the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women (UAEW) in New Orleans.  Queen Mother Moore and the UAEW took their reparation demand to the United Nations.  The UN shot it down but she...

In 1982, the African People’s Socialist Party convened the first international tribunal on reparations in Brooklyn, New York.  The verdict is that Africans in the US are owed no less than 14 trillion dollars in damages, or about one million dollars per family.  The African People’s Socialist Party aimed to make reparations a household word by taking it out of the hands of the legislative and legal sector and giving it to the African working class.  It has succeeded.  Black Power Talks...

On this episode of Black Power Talks, we discuss the Black Arts Movement, the role of the African artist and African revolution with Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets. Abiodun is one of the founders of The Last Poets and penned some of their most widely known works such as New York, New York and When the Revolution Comes. He is one of the original emcees. Abiodun discusses the origins of the Last Poets and their political inspiration from Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X to the poet...

It’s been a month since the beginning of Russia’s military campaign to stop NATO expansion in Ukraine.  The March 2nd vote in the United Nations General Assembly on a resolution denouncing Russia revealed a split between the white countries of the world and many of the countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, 52 of which either voted against the resolution, abstained or did not cast a vote at all.  On today’s episode of Black Power Talks, we explore the African...

We discussed hip hop and politics with our guest for this episode is Jermaine"Complex" Simpson.  Complex is a rapper from San Diego, California.   Born Jermaine Simpson, Complex was raised in the heart of the African community of San Diego.  Complex is the author of four albums, West Coast MC’n, State of Mind, A Beautiful Mess and Wrath and Roses.  Much like his favorite artists, Ice Cube, Rakim, Tupac, and among others, Complex straddles the lines of a few genres of hip hop, namely the...

In this episode, we engage what is amongst the most important interventions into socialist and communist thought ever, Colonialism as the Mode of Production.  Since its inception, the African People’s Socialist Party, the Uhuru Movement and the ideology of African Internationalism has clearly stated that the African struggle for liberation is against colonialism.  In his recent treatise, Colonialism as The Mode of Production, Chairman Omali Yeshitela synthesizes 50 years of his relentless...

On today’s episode of Black Power Talks, we discuss the Covid-19 Omicron Variant surge and a recent trip to Cuba with Dr. Aisha Fields. Dr. Fields is a physicist who has dedicated her skills for the development and empowerment of African people. She is the International Director of the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP), a non-profit organization whose mission is to “collectivize the vast skills of Africans around the world in order to establish community...

On December 22, 2021, The Burning Spear Newspaper turned 53 years old.  The Burning Spear Newspaper is the oldest Black Power Newspaper in continuous print. The Burning Spear Newspaper was founded by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, then named Joseph Waller, in 1968, in St. Petersburg, Florida.  First established as a newsletter produced on a mimeograph machine, the Burning Spear, or The Spear for short, became a full-spread newspaper in 1969. Dubbed, the Voice of the International African...

On December 9, 2021, Denzel Draughn, an organizer with the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement in San Diego, California was found not guilty on all charges after a highly-profiled case of resistance to police terror.  Denzel faced eight felonies, two counts of pepper spraying a group of San Diego cops and six counts of preventing an arrest.  Denzel faced as many as 11 years in prison and had been originally charged with almost 20 felonies.   Denzel had testified that his...

In this episode, we talk about the current surge in the movement for reparations to African people in the United States and elsewhere.  In St. Petersburg, Florida, organizers with the Reparations Now Committee of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement are leading the Take Back the Dome Campaign in response to the decades of economic devastation that the building of the 86 acre Tropicana Field has caused the African Community in St. Petersburg, Florida. The struggle over the...

On November 19, 2021, 18-year old Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges.  Rittenhouse had been charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, and one count of curfew violation following an incident August 25, 2020. In a seeming contrast, the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, an African jogger in Glynn County, Georgia were found guilty on November 24, 2021.  On...

On November 6th and 7th, the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held its 13th Annual Black People’s March on the White House followed by its annual Conference in Washington DC.  Africans, other colonized people and white people in solidarity gathered at Malcolm X Park and marched to Lafayette Park where they held a rally to mobilize for justice and self-determination for black people.  The next day local and remote representatives of the various organizations...

On October 24, 2021, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was honored with the unveiling of a bronze bust at the intersection of Mandela Parkway and Dr. Huey P. Newton Way (formerly 9th street) in West Oakland, California.  Ninth Street was changed to Dr. Huey P. Newton Way on what would have been Newton’s 79th Birthday, February 17, 2021.  The revealing of the bust marked the 55th anniversary of the Black Panther Party.  Today we talk with Bakari...

On October 24, 2021, the African National Women's Organization held the Arrest CPS organizing conference to bring together parents, organizers and lawyers as a strategy to strengthen parents’ defense of their children and offer a network of support that is rooted in empowering African families.  The organizing conference featured panel discussions from members of the Uhuru Movement, Union Del Barrio, Operation Stop CPS and Movement for Power. This episode features excerpts from that...

Today on The People’s War Radio Show, we are looking at the water crisis in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Benton Harbor is 85 percent Black and more than 45 percent of the residents live below the poverty line.  As far back as 2015, residents began to notice high amounts of lead in their water.  Residents began to raise the alarm but local and state officials did nothing.  After years of complaints, a 2018 was finally done that showed the presence of lead in the Benton Harbor water at rates...

'Battle of Algiers' - Gillo Pontecorvo by kndynt2099 - Creative Commons   At the height of the African Revolution of the 1960s, Italian Communist Filmmaker Gilo Pontecorvo released what is possibly his magnum opus, the greatest work of his career, The Battle of Algiers.  The Battle of Algiers was shot in the streets of Algiers in a documentary style, dramatizing a key period in the Algerian independence struggle against French colonialism. The film has much to teach us now, as the...

There is a growing interest in socialism amongst Black people in the United States.  A recent poll by Axios/Momentive found that a growing sector of the US public favors socialism and a decreasing number of people favor capitalism.  While the poll found that 41 percent of people in the US favored socialism and 49 percent favored capitalism, a number that has dropped in recent years, the numbers out of the African community have risen profoundly.  Sixty percent of Africans in the US favor...

In this episode we look at the mass deportations and brutal violence inflicted on African people from Haiti taking place at the colonial border between the US and Mexico.  In late September 2021, images of Haitian refugees, being corralled by US border patrol agents mounted on horseback at the border crossing in the southwest Texas city of Del Rio. One image showed a mounted border cop wielding a whip as he attacked African refugees. These photographs sparked immediate comparisons to images...

In this episode we present Part Two of a 2-part series titled “The Truth About Afghanistan - Colonialism: the graveyard of imperialism”. That was the title of a September 7th web broadcast, put on by the African People’s Socialist Party to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the implications that this defeat has for the liberation struggle of African and other colonized peoples. That broadcast featured presentations by Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the African...

In this episode we present Part One of a 2-part series titled “The Truth About Afghanistan - Colonialism: the graveyard of imperialism”. That was the title of a September 7th web broadcast, put on by the African People’s Socialist Party to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the implications that this defeat has for the liberation struggle of African and other colonized peoples. That broadcast featured presentations by Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the...

Today’s show is entitled “Getting Fit for the Revolution” and incorporates excerpts from a panel by the same name that was presented at the 2021 International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement Convention from September 3 through 5th. The convention observed the 30th anniversary of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement as well as the 50-plus year of Uhuru Movement mass organization.  The panels were designed to confront the crises the African community face and provide an...

This episode looks at some history of the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement which is celebrating its thirty year anniversary this year, 2021.  The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement was founded in 1991 by the African People’s Socialist Party, as a mass organization designed to defend the democratic rights of the black community and to bring African people back into political life after the military defeat  our Black Power movement of the 1960s had...

In this episode, we’re going to showcase several African poets and talk about the role of poetry and culture in the African anti-colonial struggle. We know that the spoken word is powerful.  If not, colonizers would not have stripped Africans of their names, their language, their traditions and their songs.  The anticolonial writer from Martinique Aime Cesaire wrote extensively on the power of poetry, the spoken word and culture.  In the important essay, “Poetry and Knowledge”, Cesaire...

Today on the People’s War Radio Show, we are celebrating the birthday of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.  Every week, the People’s War Radio show brings you an African Internationalist perspective of world issues.  African Internationalism, the theory of the African Working Class has its origins in the ideology and practices of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.    Marcus Garvey organized one of the most important anticolonial African organizations in history.  Garvey’s revolutionary journal, the Negro World, had...