Thomas Sankara
Harlem Bids Farewell to Late Theo-Ben Gurirab, Namibian Revolutionary and Gentle Giant
Left to right: Mansour; Gertze; Brath; Plummer; Austrian Ambassador Jan Kickert; Rosario; Ms. Mohammed; Algerian Ambassador Sabri Boukadoum; Mr. Barron; Ms. Barron; Mozambican Ambassador ...
Nkrumah’s Vision for Africa’s Development Still Offers Best Viable Path
Nkrumah had a vision. Photo: Flickr. Rampant and pervasive corruption in Africa and the widespread impoverishment of the masses is not by accident. Africans ...
#ProudAfricans Rally Feb. 15 To Repudiate Trump’s Racist Slur At United Nations
Some of the organizers of the upcoming #ProudAfricans rally. Photo: Black Star News [Commentary] Malcolm X was one of the most prominent leaders who ...
Trump’s racist ‘s–thole’ remark is a far cry from the real Africa
President Trump. Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr As a Ugandan immigrant, I wasn’t surprised by President Trump’s reference to Haiti and African countries as “shitholes.” ...
Not Yet Uhuru: Thirty Years After the Assassination of Thomas Sankara
[Comment] Which way forward for Africa and the Caribbean? Thomas Sankara, Pan-African revolutionary and former President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987 had ...
Pan-African Legend: Freedom Fighter Elombe Brath Honored with Street Renaming
Brother Elombe hosted Nelson and Winnie Mandela in Harlem. New York Honors Elombe Brath with Harlem Street Renaming. On Saturday, September 30, 2017, a ...
Harlem Street Renamed After Elombe Brath, Renowned Pan-African and Champion of Black Empowerment
Elombe Brath The great Pan-African leader Elombe Brath’s legacy will be recognized Friday June 23, when the southwest corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ...
Archives: How Cuba Helped Free Mandela and Defeat Apartheid
[Reflections: Pan-Latino Solidarity] At the Non Aligned Movement Summit in Havana, 1979, Castro greets Guinea’s President Ahmed Sekou Toure, Angola’s Neto and Guinea-Bissau’s Luis ...
Cuba And Africa: Brothers in arms, and Solidarity
Gen. Antonio Maceo [Reflections] The small Spanish Caribbean island of Cuba means different things to different people of different backgrounds. To the tourist it ...
Gambia Countdown: Democracy’s Challenges and Gains in Africa
Jammeh–still in his own universe Africa begins the new year with some of the perennial political challenges that need urgent resolution and developments that ...
