Governance

When a Black radical dies in Mississippi, one should never accept at face value the state’s word on the cause of death.

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

March 5 will remain marked in the history of Venezuela, greater Latin America and Africa and within social movements around the world.

‘…I beat him up, yes, this old man who does not respect his gray hairs. I beat him up because he did ‘waka’ to me and said that he would call police for me. You should thank your God that I did not have my gun with me. I would have shot you and wasted you…’

A most significant news item – significant for developing countries, especially those in corruption-ridden African countries – emerged from Washington, DC, on 5 March 2014.

I hate to break it to you, my fellow Africans—continental and diasporic—the world over. I am now convinced beyond all doubt that God has no place in His\Her\Its heart for that segment of humanity called black and, especially, its sub-segment that is resident in the continent of Africa.

It has been 41 years since 20 January 1973 when Amilcar Cabral, founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), was assassinated. This was a few months after independence had been achieved in the countries for which he had struggled.

KAMPALA, Uganda/NEW YORK, 10 March 2014—Since I was appointed the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa in August 2013, I have as my top priority linked human rights and the AIDS response.

Reading the March 2 editorial in the New York Times on the so-called revolution in Ukraine, I couldn’t help but marvel at how easily elite opinion makers in the U.S.

Recently I came across a cartoon by Kenya’s celebrated caricaturist Gado (2013) addressing the ‘draconian’ Public Benefit Organisations and Media bills.