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By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele —W.E.B. Du Bois Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d’état to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is America’s democratic process for t...

By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele -Imamu Amiri Baraka White supremacy and systematic racism left Black people as one of the most oppressed groups in America. Many Afrikan American leaders came forward to help liberate Black people from centuries of socioeconomic disparities caused by racial discrimination. During the high levels of the Black Liberation Movement in the 1950s to the early 1970s, Civil Rights and Black power became the world wide rallying call for social justice.  We as Afrikan people ...

THE REAL AMERICA: A Black Perspective “And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America, not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don’t see any Am...

By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele “Culture is a weapon in the face of our enemies” – Amílcar Cabral (He was one of Afrika’s foremost anti-colonial leaders) Some  of us are still on the revolutionary path to liberated ourselves from White and Arab cultural domination. Therefore, some of us do not celebrate any European or Arab holidays. However, we know that many of us in the Afrikan world community celebrate European and Arab holidays. This is because of the centuries of slavery, colonialis...