#OtD 14 Apr 1775 the first formal organisation for the abolition of slavery was formed in the United States, in the Rising Sun tavern, Philadelphia. It was called the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8534/1…

Mr Christie's Book Award.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns the incident on April 10, 2024, at University of California Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Catherine Fisk’s home.

Read our statement in the images 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

There is something quintessentially Vancouver about the Heirloom restaurant closing, from the anti-Black racism to the faux veganism.

A classic.

With a heavy heart I remember the conversations, & at times intellectual arguments with the great William (Bill) Strickland (1937-2024) in the halls & classrooms of the New Africa House W. E. B. Du Bois Dept. of Afro American Studies.

Constitution of Hayti, 20 May 1805 blackagendareport.com/document-const…

'The 1805 Constitution of Haiti was the first state document to proclaim universal emancipation. Its announcement of the permanent abolition of slavery predated abolition in the British colonies by almost three decades and in the United States by sixty years.'

My kid really faked illness to watch The Arsenal.

Canada now

Lessons for modern-day Barbados?

Today I am going to be teaching (in the middle of an ongoing genocide that the liberal West remains in denial of though complicit in) this text by Fayez Sayegh from 1965 (so long before the late Patrick Wolfe's famous work). Sayegh diagnoses the meaning of Israel practices…

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'Écrire le monde noir', de Paulette Nardal.
Martinique, Littérature / Critique, 2024.
384 pages, 17,00€
Textes rassemblés et présentés par Brent Hayes Edwards et Ève Gianoncelli.
Diffusion : @hobodiffusion

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Juici Patties has set its eyes on opening at least three new stores in South Florida before summer, and is already thinking about opening new stores across all 50 states in the United States.
jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/03/jui…

Waiting for you to speak for Palestine.

Are there any really strong books on the political economy of sport in North America? I read Nike, Inc. years ago. Don't say Beyond a Boundary.

'STATEMENT: UN Palestine Commission – Partition recommendation – Statement from the Arab Higher Committee, 6 February 1948'

- Check out the latest from the Editors of the The Black Agenda Review, in this week's Black Agenda Report: blackagendareport.com/statement-un-p…

Happy 40th Anniversary to this jam 🔥🔥🔥🔥

'The 1948 statement on the UN Partition of Palestine by the Arab Higher Committee is a reminder of the sordid history of the U.S. in the expropriation of land and the attempted ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine.'

blackagendareport.com/statement-un-p…

Lord, watch over our shoulders tonight
and help us live thy words tomorrow

Garnett Silk (2 Apr 1966 – 9 Dec 1994),  #Jamaican  singer and songwriter born Garnet Damion Smith, 58 years ago today, in Mandeville. Died tragically aged 28, attempting to save his mother from her burning…