Abayomi Azikiwe

Trial set for Benton Harbor, Mich., activist Rev. Edward Pinkney

St. Joseph, Mich. --  Berrien County’s courthouse in St. Joseph, Mich., was filled with people from across the Midwest at…

June 13, 2014

Maya Angelou gave literary, political voice to African-American women

Youth and students from successive generations were influenced by Maya Angelou’s widely read book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird…

June 3, 2014

General Baker 1941-2014

A standing-room-only audience at the United Auto Workers Local 600 hall on Detroit’s border in Dearborn, Mich., attended a memorial…

June 1, 2014

Imperialists host conference on Nigerian security in Paris

Reports of mutinies within the army mount while tensions escalate A conference on security concerns in Nigeria, the most populous…

May 20, 2014

Rev. Edward Pinkney criminalized again, under house arrest in Benton Harbor, Mich.

After winning national support in 2007-09 during efforts to fight charges of alleged election irregularities, the Rev. Edward Pinkney has…

May 20, 2014

ANC big winner in South Africa elections

Despite worker unrest Twenty years after Freedom Day in 1994, the African National Congress won overwhelmingly in South Africa’s fifth…

May 14, 2014

U.S. hands off Nigeria!

As anger grows over abductions May 12 — A video purportedly released today by the armed Boko Haram sect based…

May 13, 2014

Detroit May Day: ‘Make the banks pay!’

May Day in Detroit focused around the ongoing struggle against emergency management, the forced city bankruptcy and the role of…

May 7, 2014

World Economic Forum hosted by Nigeria amid internal security crises

Africa’s leading oil-exporting state and most populous country, Nigeria has been designated by the West as Africa's largest economy, yet…

May 6, 2014

Mabel Williams: A legacy of struggle & community service

Funeral services were held in Detroit on April 25 for Mabel Robinson Williams, the widow of African-American revolutionary Robert F.…

April 30, 2014