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“George Jackson: Black Revolutionary”

“George Jackson: Black Revolutionary”

Editor's note The following article was written by Walter Rodney for a 1971 issue of Maji Maji, the quarterly journal of the youth wing of the Tanganyika African National Union. The text is held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia, under the...

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August

Introduction In August 1619, enslaved Africans touched foot in the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States. The centuries since witnessed the development of a racial system more violent, extractive, and deeply entrenched than any other in...