A google search of brother Malcolm reveals many sources referring to him as “American,” yet he clearly stated throughout his life that he was not an American. During a speech…
On February 21, 1933, Nina Simone was born in North Carolina.She was a singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and activist who used her talent as a weapon in the struggle for…
In 1966, Huey P. Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland, CA. The Black Panther Party was a black revolutionary socialist organization that worked toward ending…
Kalonda is also a writer who sees herself as a necessary voice of the black working class as she offers political analysis in her pieces.
Since she was a little girl growing up in Jamaica, Kalonda was always concerned about the oppression that black people on the island and around the world face. She is proud to be able to offer solutions to that oppression through her organizing background and her writing.
This blog is a home to all of Kalonda’s passions. Because like freedom fighter Steve Biko, Kalonda “writes what she likes.”
