Rap On The Run (Written by Ron Sharp) Rap On The Run. Wanted by the FBI for black activism in the States, Nehanda Abiodun fled to Havana, where she became the “godmother of Cuban hip-hop” Outside a run-down apartment block in the eastern suburbs of Havana, a group of teenagers plays football in the street. […]
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God Mother Of Cuban Hip Hop
(Written by Nehanda Abiodun) GodMother Of Cuban Hip Hop. Over the past 10 years, Nehanda has been active in the Cuban hip hop movement. Her capacity as a mentor for various rap groups in Havana has earned her the affectionate nickname “Godmother of Cuban hip hop.” In the past, Nehanda has opened her house to […]
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Message From Exile
(Written by Nehanda Abiodun) Carry it on now. An Excerpt from “Life Underground” By Nehanda Abiodun in BLU 9 In the past I’ve resisted writing what it means to be underground, using security as an excuse, not wanting to give my enemies any more information than they already had. But I was fooling myself. […]
Read More Nehanda Abiodun Story
(Written by Nehanda Abiodun) Carry it on now. Nehanda Isoke Abiodun, is a name that I am proud to have for many reasons. My first and last name were given to me by very close comrades on my 30th birthday and when Zimbabwe was fighting for its independence. Nehanda was a spiritualist revolutionary who lived […]
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Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Post-modern maroon in the ultimate palenque
Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Post-modern maroon in the ultimate palenque An interview by Christian Parenti 24oct00 Christian Parenti teaches sociology at the New College of California in San Francisco. What happens to old Black Panthers? Some wind up dead, like Huey P. Newton. Some join the Moonies and the Republican Party, like Eldridge Cleaver. […]
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Assata Shakur talks to Pastors for Peace
Assata Shakur talks to Pastors for Peace Assata Interview, 11/6/00 (I am providing a summary here because we are missing the first few questions and answers due to problems with the tape recorder. In this first part Assata spoke about how she became a Black Panther in the 1960s and was targeted by the FBI. […]
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From exile with love: Former Black Panther Assata Shakur speaks to America from Cuba
From exile with love: Former Black Panther Assata Shakur speaks to America from Cuba [Editor’s note: Final Call Staff Writer Nisa Islam Muhammad traveled to Cuba with a group of 15 journalists under the guidance of DeWayne Wickham and the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies. They are documenting the African influence in the Americas. While there, […]
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A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and Its Place In the Black Liberation Movement
A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and Its Place In the Black Liberation Movement By Sundiata Acoli The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October, 1966, in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The name was shortened to the Black Panther Party (BPP) and it began spreading eastward through the Black urban ghetto colonies […]
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Letter from Assata on the Prison Industrial Complex
Letter from Assata on the Prison Industrial Complex by Assata Shakur September 25, 1998 Greetings Sisters, Brothers, Comrades, Never in our history has critical resistance to the status quo been more important. The growth of the Prison-Industrial complex has been appallingly rapid and the escalating repression that has accompanied it is totally alarming. What of future […]
Read MoreA Political Statement from the Black Underground
A Political Statement from the Black Underground (Coordinating Committee Black Liberation Army) ORIGINALLY RELEASED 1976/1977 Dedicated to all the comrades killed, captured, and exiled in the struggle. To build the armed urban guerrilla, from, and to those who supported us. When all others refused to face up to Reality! Table Of Contents Introduction Overview View From The […]
Read MoreOct. 5 rally to protest U.S. House vote on former Panther
Oct. 5 rally to protest U.S. House vote on former Panther From Afrikan.net/HYPE Information Service> 2 October 1998 (Washington, D.C.) — Supporters of exiled former Black Panther Assata Shakur will hold a rally here Monday to protest a congressional resolution that calls on the government of Cuba to extradite her to the United States. The […]
Read MoreMessages of Condolences From Nehanda Abiodun & Assata Shakur on the Transition of Our Revolutionary Sista, Comrade & Friend Safiya Bukhari
Messages of Condolences From Nehanda Abiodun & Assata Shakur on the Transition of Our Revolutionary Sista, Comrade & Friend Safiya Bukhari (Assata Shakur & Nehanda Abiodun) on the Transition of Our Revolutionary Sista, Comrade & Friend Safiya Bukhari From Assata Shakur, Havana Cuba August 29, 2003: It is with much sadness that i say my […]
Read MoreCALLING ON GOVERNMENT OF CUBA TO EXTRADITE JOANNE CHESIMARD TO UNITED STATES
[Congressional Record: September 14, 1998] CALLING ON GOVERNMENT OF CUBA TO EXTRADITE JOANNE CHESIMARD TO UNITED STATES Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 254) calling on the Government of Cuba to return to the United States convicted felon Joanne Chesimard and all […]
Read MoreJoanne Chesimard, NJ’s most wanted killer, proclaims innocence from Cuba
Joanne Chesimard, NJ’s most wanted killer, proclaims innocence from Cuba Associated Press 2 March 1998 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – Joanne Chesimard, a cop killer who escaped from prison in 1979 to become New Jersey’s most-wanted fugitive, said in an interview from Cuba that she is not a murderer. “No, I did not,” Chesimard told WNBC-TV […]
Read MoreAssata Shakur: Profiled and on the run
Assata Shakur: Profiled and on the run New Crisis, The, Nov/Dec 2000 by Shakur, Assata, Lewis, Ida E A political activist most of my life, I am an ex-political prisoner who has lived in exile in Cuba since 1984. Although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am no […]
Read MoreImmoral Bounty for Assata
Immoral Bounty for Assata By Atty. Michael Ratner, Covert Action Quarterly 27 October 1998 Michael Ratner is an attorney who works with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and co-author, with Michael Steven Smith, of Che Guevara and the FBI (Ocean Press: Melbourne, 1997). 1. Even prior to the notoriety of the request for Assata’s extradition, Congress […]
Read MoreCritique of Interview of Assata Shakur with NBC journalist Ralph Penza
Critique of Interview of Assata Shakur with NBC journalist Ralph Penza Assata Shakur, in Covert Action Quaterly [26 October 1998] In January of 1998, during the Pope’s visit to Cuba, Assata agreed to do an interview with NBC journalist, Ralph Penza, about her letter to the Pope, her experiences in the NewJersey court system, and her […]
Read MoreNew Jersey and the Nazis
New Jersey and the Nazis by Hans Wolff, August, 1998 There have been persistent reports of a Nazi subculture in the New Jersey State Police, which has long had a reputation for violence and racism. Recently, the State Police was the subject of a review article in the New York Times, which cited years of […]
Read MoreCastro Defends Fugitive Sought by U.S.
Castro Defends Fugitive Sought by U.S. Castro Defends Fugitive Sought by U.S. May 11, 11:29 PM (ET) By John Rice HAVANA (AP) – President Fidel Castro has rejected calls to hand over a black militant convicted in 1973 of killing a New Jersey state trooper, saying she’s a victim of racial persecution and not a […]
Read MoreNew Jersey Troopers Have Selective Amnesia About How They Victimized People Like Assata Shakur
New Jersey Troopers Have Selective Amnesia About How They Victimized People Like Assata Shakur Date: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com The other day, a colonel with the New Jersey State Police said something that ought to rankle any black person who has even the vaguest familiarity of how police brutality and racial injustice […]
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