Abayomi Azikiwe

Equatorial Guinea was the scene of the latest African Union (AU) Summit convened on June 26-27. This oil-rich nation has become more prominent in recent years for its rhetorical defiance of the West as it relates to both the domestic and foreign policy of the 54-member regional body.

A standing-room-only audience at UAW Local 600 on the Detroit-Dearborn border attended a three-hour memorial program in honor of the life and contributions of General Gordon Baker, Jr., a co-founder of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LR

Many youth and students from successive generations were influenced by the widely-read book of Maya Angelou entitled ‘I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings’.

May 25, 2014 marked the 51st anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU), which was initiated through the Sirte Declaration of 1999 and formally established in 2002.

A conference on the security concerns of the most populous state in Africa was not held on the continent but in France, a former colonial power in the region.

Countries that are the focus of these reports of phenomenal growth such as Nigeria and Ghana are undergoing internal crises related to the rising cost of living and the need to expand government spending on infrastructural development.

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

A two-day conference on April 2-3 in Belgium was not attended by several key African leaders from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Eritrea and Sudan.

Baltimore Black Panther Party member Marshall Eddie Conway was released from 44 years of imprisonment on March 4.

In March of 1964, Malcolm X announced his official departure from the Nation of Islam where he had spent 12 years working on behalf of the organization led by Elijah Muhammad.