An Interview with Laura Whitehorn on The War Before
BY SARA FALCONER The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, & Fighting for Those Left Behind. By Safiya Bukhari. Edited by Laura Whitehorn....
View ArticleNew Book: Who Am Eye: A Spokenword Memoir
WHO AM EYE: A SPOKENWORD MEMOIR by aron douglass castlin WHO AM EYE is a spokenword memoir, presented in three parts, that explores the realities of life as a multiethnic black man. The poems combine...
View ArticleNew Book – Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings
By James Yaki Sayles “This exercise is about more than our desire to read and understand Wretched (as if it were about some abstract world, and not our own); it’s about more than our need to understand...
View ArticleNew Book – Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
By Jordan Flaherty, with an introduction by Democracy Now host Amy Goodman and a forward by civil rights attorney Tracie Washington Floodlines is a firsthand account of community, culture, and...
View ArticleBook Review – WHO AM EYE: A Spokenword Memoir by A. Castlin
BY JAAN LAAMAN Who Am Eye is a compact new book by Aron Castlin, aka Akili Mtumishi. Many 4SM readers will be familiar with Akili’s sharp revolutionary analysis from various articles and essays he has...
View ArticleBook Review: Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party, by...
BY MARLAND X The Black Panther Communist Party for Self-Defense (BPP) manifested itself in many forms during the era of 1966-1982. This book is a surface telling of the story of the BPP’s West Coast...
View ArticleBook Review: Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America, by Randall Robinson
BY MIKE AFRICA Defending the Spirit is an autobiography. Randall Robinson first lays out the history of himself and his nuclear family, and his upbringing in the south. His experience of racism and...
View ArticleOn Meditations: A Weapon for Struggle
BY SANYIKA SHAKUR The following is a review of Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings by James Yaki Sayles. The review is written by New Afrikan...
View ArticleSafiya Bukhari, Presente!
BY DAVID GILBERT Safiya Bukhari, The War Before: The True Life Story or Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind. The Feminist Press 2010. It’s...
View Article‘Panther Baby’: The Journey of Jamal Joseph
REVIEW BY MUMIA ABU-JAMAL From www.workers.org Joseph, Jamal, Baby Panther: A Life of Reinvention & Rebellion. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2012. If one is high school age in America, the...
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