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10
Aug

Wrongfully imprisoned Leroy Jones to be released after 15 years

By: Matsemela Odom, InPDUM International Vice-President Leroy Jones is an incarcerated African in the Nevada prison system.  According to the Prison Policy Initiative, Africans are eight percent of Nevada’s population but nearly 33 percent of its prisoners. Africans are locked up at a rate over four times that of whites.  Whites make up 54 percent

29
Jun

Mr. Morale and Survivalism: an African Internationalist analysis of Kendrick Lamar’s latest album

Over the past 12 years, Kendrick Lamar’s music has defied the form and genre that has historically been applied to hip hop culture and rap music.  There has historically been a division between what people call “conscious rap” and “hardcore or gangsta rap”.  Kendrick Lamar’s immediate entry into hip hop has been to give definition

10
Jan

No Justice from an Unjust System: President Kalambayi Speaks on the Ahmaud Aubery Verdict and the Need for Black Community Control of the Police

“Seven years ago, when I met Chairman Omali Yeshitela and the African People’s Socialist Party, I met a revolutionary Party that had an understanding as to why Mike Brown was murdered. They weren’t shocked or surprised at this because they had seen this over and over again. Chairman provided the understanding that this fight that

17
Dec

Promoting Revolutionary Culture! Salute InPDUM’s Cultural Workers

Askia Toure, Revolutionary Cultural Worker Poet, essayist, artist, editor and new member of InPDUM, Askia Toure hosted a reading of his recent works in Boston, Ma. During this event, comrade Askia was, metaphorically and literally, given his flowers and saluted for his decades long commitment to the promotion of revolutionary culture.  A prolific writer, comrade