09/27/2025
*1947-2025
We are saddened to report that Assata Shakur, revolutionary, activist, and author, has passed away.
Born JoAnne Chesimard, she rose as a leading member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, fighting for justice and freedom.
A political exile in Cuba since 1984, her life embodied resistance, resilience, and the unyielding pursuit of liberation. Her legacy lives on in the generations she inspired to stand tall in the face of oppression.
The best way to honor here is with a quote we all should by:
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Rest in power, Assata.
08/31/2025
“Israel is a welfare case; it lives off the welfare of the United States. It cannot survive on its own; it eats up our tax monies and our labor. And we support it-not only through taxes. We support it through paying heating bills and light bills and other kinds of bills. We support it by taking lower wages, losing jobs and everything else. We give of our very blood and sweat to support that nation.”
— Dr Amos Wilson, The Psychology of Self-Hatred and Self-defeat, page 8
08/15/2025
“A people’s world-view effects and tends to determine their behavior. A Universe understood totally in materialistic, rationalistic terms will discourage spirituality. An ethos characterized by a will-to-power, by the need to control, will derive pleasure from a technical order, from conflict (war), from winning (destroying), and exploitation....The African universe is conceived as a unified spiritual totality. We speak of the universe as ‘cosmos’ and we mean that all being within it is organically interrelated and interdependent. The western materialized universe does not yield cosmos. The essence of the African cosmos is spiritual reality. That is its fundamental nature, its primary essence. But realities are not conceived of as being in an irreconcilable opposition, as they are in the West, and spirit is not separate from matter. Both spiritual and material being are necessary in order for there to be a meaningful reality. While spiritual being gives force and energy to matter, material being gives form to spirit. Enlightenment, and the acquisition of wisdom and knowledge depend to a significant degree on being able to apprehend spirit in matter.”
Marimba Ani
02/22/2025
“Religion is made for man to serve man, not man to serve religion. Other people use their religion to serve them and black people serve the religion. You let somebody put a false religion at the center of your consciousness and your culture and you define yourself and your culture by a hand-me-down slave religion.” – Dr Amos Wilson
Dr. Amos Wilson cautions Black folk to critically evaluate the function of religion in their lives, ensuring it serves as a tool for liberation rather than oppression. He emphasizes that religion should not be followed blindly, particularly considering its historical imposition by colonizers and slaveholders as a means of controlling and pacifying Black communities. Instead, Wilson advocates for a conscious and empowered engagement with spirituality and culture.
02/03/2025
ILYASAH SHABAZZ ·
Today I am older than my father, Malcolm X, ever was. For the rest of my life, I will be older than my father ever had the opportunity to be, living the experiences age brings that he never had the chance to enjoy. As I look back on my life, I see how profoundly different it has been from his.”
Malcolm X inspired a whole generation of Black Americans to educate themselves about the ancient empires of Africa.
02/22/2025
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