Today In Labor History June 29, 1941: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), founder of the U.S. civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was a key figure in the Black Power movement, becoming honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and, later, as the leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. The FBI attempted to destroy him through COINTELLPRO, and succeeded in convincing Huey Newton that he was a CIA agent. This, and the Panthers’ embracing of white activists into their movement, led him to distance himself from the Panthers. In 1968, he married the famous South African singer Miriam Makeba and moved to Africa, changing his name to Kwame Ture and campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist pan-Africanism.

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Social Revolutions of my Life – Anti-Capitalism & Class Consciousness

This post is Part 3 of a series on social revolutions of the past 30 years — where public consciousness has massively shifted in favor of liberation. My aim is to create space to pause and acknowledge how things have changed in ways that once felt impossible, remind us that things can always be otherwise. It is inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2016 edition of Hope in the Dark and David Graeber’s 2007 essay “The Shock of Victory.” Feel free to check out part 1 and part 2. [...]

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Today in Labor History May 12, 1971: The Panther 21 were acquitted in New York on charges of conspiring to bomb buildings after it was revealed that the undercover police had infiltrated the Black Panther Party, created the plans for the violence, and framed innocent Panthers. Among those charged were Afeni Shakur who was, at the time, pregnant with Tupac Shakur. Another defendant was Sundiata Acoli, who would later join the Black Liberation Army (BLA) and get convicted (1974), along with Assata Shakur, of murdering a New Jersey state trooper. Another defendant in the Panther 21 case was Kuwasi Balagoon who became an anarchist while in prison and who also joined the BLA. In 1979, while on the lam from his second prison escape, he helped to free Assata Shakur, who fled to Cuba and who died there in 2025. In 1986, Balagoon, who was bisexual, died in prison from AIDS. The prison abolitionist group, Black and Pink, which supports LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners, has, since 2020, run a "Kuwasi Balagoon award" for prisoners living with HIV/AIDS.

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