Jasper-style lynching in Paris, Texas
Jacqueline McClelland is the grieving mother of Brandon McClelland, 24, who was dragged to death in Paris, Texas, on Sept. 16, 2008, 10 years after the infamous dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in...
View ArticleKeeping the pressure on in Paris, Texas
Medical examiners rule dragging death a homicide; 2 suspects indicted by Jesse Muhammad, Contributing Writer Rev. Fred Stovall of Kingdom Harvest Church speaks at the rally at the Lamar County...
View ArticleThe Great Harlem Debate: Was the Obama Election Good for Black People?
by Davey D Davey D This past Sunday over 1,200 people showed up at Salem Methodist Church in Harlem to listen and weigh in on a discussion that has been raging on in our communities but is oftentimes...
View ArticleKKK vs. New Black Panthers in Paris, Texas
by Davey D White supremacists – KKK, Neo-Nazis, skinheads – crash a Black community rally in Paris, Texas, supported by the New Black Panther Party, protesting the dismissal of charges against two...
View ArticleMumia must live and be free! End the racist death penalty!
by Diane Bukowski “Free Mumia!” was the cry heard ‘round the world as what could be Mumia’s last appeal was heard in Philadelphia. These protesters and press were part of the large crowd that rallied...
View ArticleLucasville prison uprising leaders go on hunger strike
Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 updates follow by Sharon Danann for the Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network Jan. 3, 2011 – Four death-sentenced prisoners, wrongfully convicted of crimes following the 1993 prison...
View ArticlePrisoners’ hunger strike enters second week
by Workers World Cleveland bureau “So much energy is coming from all over. I’m just trying to hang on and ride the wave,” wrote political prisoner Bomani Shakur Jan. 6, the third day of his hunger...
View ArticleLucasville hunger strikers’ support rally outside Ohio State Penitentiary on...
Delegation to present Warden David Bobby’s representative with letter of support for the hunger strikers with hundreds of signatures by Sharon Danann, Lucasville Uprising Freedom Network This is the...
View ArticleVideo of vicious police beating of 15-year-old suppressed for nine months by...
Chad Holley’s accusation that police viciously beat him on March 13, 2010, has been vindicated with the release on Feb. 2, 2011, of a video of the beating. Holley, now 16, has filed a federal civil...
View ArticleHouston needs a civilian review board – but Texas needs much more!
by Keith H. Washington, bka Comrade Malik, NABPP Prison Chapter For the past four years, community activists and civil rights leaders in the Houston area have been fighting hard to establish a civilian...
View ArticleBaltimore ‘shuts it down’ for Freddie Gray
by Christopher Mathias and Ryan J. Reilly Baltimore – Hundreds of people took to the streets here on Saturday to demonstrate against police brutality and call for accountability for the police officers...
View ArticleConcerning reactionaries and thugs: The New Black Panther Party
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard Like many of my comrades, original Black Panther Party members, I have for years watched these strutting caricatures who call themselves the New Black Panther Party and...
View ArticleI tried my best to encourage the brothers to stand up
by Brandon Stevenson Thank you for the great and mighty work that you brothers and sisters are doing and have been doing spreading education and information to our people. I love the Bay View. You all...
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