2023-02-22: News Headlines

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-02-21). Justice For Malcolm X: Ben Crump Plans To Sue NYPD Over Assassination Of Civil Rights Icon. newsone.com An imminent lawsuit will claim the NYPD and other government agencies conspired around the murder of Malcolm X, Ben Crump announced ahead of the 58th anniversary of the civil rights icon's assassination.

Ann Brown (2023-02-21). Why Kwame Ture Hated Political Reactionaries And Why Bill Clinton Hated Him. moguldom.com Kwame Ture was one of the most prominent and outspoken organizers in the civil rights movement and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, Ture, whose birth name was Stokely Carmichael, came with his family to the U.S. when he was 11. He became an activist as a teenager, while attending the Bronx High School …

Oregon Capital Chronicle (2023-02-21). Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don't think so. juancole.com Naseem Rakha Maurice Cowley is teaching college-level African American Studies at McDaniel High School. ( Oregon Capital Chronicle ) — Three days after the nation honored Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Education announced that no Florida public high school would be …

Bruce C.T. Wright (2023-02-21). Justice For Malcolm X: Ben Crump Plans To Sue NYPD Over Assassination Of Civil Rights Icon. newsone.com An imminent lawsuit will claim the NYPD and other government agencies conspired around the murder of Malcolm X, Ben Crump announced ahead of the 58th anniversary of the civil rights icon's assassination.

Ann Brown (2023-02-21). Why Kwame Ture Hated Political Reactionaries And Why Bill Clinton Hated Him. moguldom.com Kwame Ture was one of the most prominent and outspoken organizers in the civil rights movement and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, Ture, whose birth name was Stokely Carmichael, came with his family to the U.S. when he was 11. He became an activist as a teenager, while attending the Bronx High School …

Oregon Capital Chronicle (2023-02-21). Is the new AP African American Studies course Dangerous? Students don't think so. juancole.com Naseem Rakha Maurice Cowley is teaching college-level African American Studies at McDaniel High School. ( Oregon Capital Chronicle ) — Three days after the nation honored Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Education announced that no Florida public high school would be …

Fight Back (2023-02-21). San Jose Day of Remembrance resumes in-person after 3-year break. fightbacknews.org San José, CA – On Sunday, February 19, more than 350 people from the Japanese American community gathered at the San José Buddhist Church Betsuin Hall for the 43rd annual Day of Remembrance. The San José Day of Remembrance was organized the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee. The event commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942. Executive Order 9066 laid the basis for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. | With the theme "Reparative Justice: Together We Rise", the program stressed the unity of the Japanese American com…

Staff (2023-02-21). 'Justice must prevail': a global call for freedom of US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in The decades-long struggle for the freedom of revolutionary leader, journalist, and US political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal received another boost of solidarity this week as a global campaign against his unjust incarceration was launched on Thursday, February 16. From the National Union…

Kerry Smith (2023-02-21). Neo-Nazi sentenced to jail for attack on anti-racists' home. greenleft.org.au Neo-Nazi extremist Desmond Liddington has been sentenced for his part in an attack on the home of anti-racists. Kerry Smith reports.

Derrick Broze (2023-02-21). #FluorideLawsuit: Censored Review on Fluoride's Toxicity Will Soon be Made Public. globalresearch.ca

Protect Thacker Pass (2023-02-21). Three Tribes File New Lawsuit Challenging Thacker Pass Lithium Mine. indybay.org Late yesterday, three Native American Tribes — the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Burns Paiute Tribe, and Summit Lake Paiute Tribe — launched a major new lawsuit against the Thacker Pass lithium mine. | This new case contains major allegations that were not heard in the prior court case, and may be a significant roadblock for the mine.

Puget Sound Anarchists (2023-02-22). Community Notice Regarding FBI Harassment and Indictment. itsgoingdown.org Report from Puget Sound Prisoner Support on recent FBI harassment and indictment against a Washington state activist. Originally posted to Puget Sound Anarchists. Puget Sound Prisoner Support issues this notice regarding a Washington state based activist who was recently indicted for Interstate Riot at the federal level from a Portland April 2021 arrest. This case…

NewsOne Staff (2023-02-21). Exonerated! Wrongly Convicted Black Folks Whose Names Have Been Cleared. newsone.com Source: youtube / WBNS 10TV | UPDATED: 8: 00 a.m. ET, Feb 21, 2023 | Thankfully, in recent years more wrongly convicted

Staff (2023-02-21). Vancouver banner drops, public interventions highlight Palestinian struggle for liberation. samidoun.net Samidoun Vancouver joined in the Days of Rage and Resistance — organized by the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement — with a banner drop in a busy area of the city on Sunday, 12 February 2023. Participants carried and waved Palestinian flags and hung banners with slogans including "Free All Palestinian Prisoners," …

WSWS (2023-02-21). US prisoner deaths rose more than 60 percent from 2019 to 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Data acquired by the the UCLA School of Law's Behind Bars Data Project indicates that 6,182 imprisoned people died behind bars in 2020 compared to 4,240 in 2019, a 62 percent increase despite a 10 percent decline in the US prison population.

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