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Guest Commentator

Kiilu Nyasha

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Kiilu Nyasha, was a Black Panther and has been part of the international struggle for nearly 40 years. She is currently host of a weekly TV program, “Freedom Is A Constant Struggle,” on SF Live (Cable 76), a columnist for the SF BayView newspaper and a member of the SF8 Committee. Click here to contact Ms. Nyasha.

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Slavery on the New Plantation (updated March, 2012)

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

As George Jackson noted in a KPFA interview with Karen Wald (Spring 1971), �I�m saying that it�s impossible, impossible, to concentration-camp resisters….We have to prove that this thing won�t work here. And the only way to prove it is resistance…and then that resistance has to be supported, of course, from the street….We can fight, but…

As George Jackson noted in a KPFA interview with Karen Wald (Spring 1971), �I�m saying that it�s impossible, impossible, to concentration-camp resisters....We have to prove that…

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Book Review – Dorothy Roberts: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

Dorothy Roberts’ new book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century is a must read for all human beings desiring to witness the beginning of the end of racism. “We have long had scientific confirmation that race is a political and not a biological category. The recreation of…

Dorothy Roberts’ new book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century is a must read for all human beings…

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America’S Supermax Prisons Do Torture

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

President Barack Obama has clearly stated, “We don’t torture.” Oh, yes we do. Big time. A myriad studies have clearly shown that human beings are social creatures ” making prolonged isolation torture. The New Yorker published an article March 30, 2009 by Atul Gawande titled, Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates…

President Barack Obama has clearly stated, “We don’t torture.” Oh, yes we do. Big time. A myriad studies have clearly shown that human beings are social…

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Black August 2008

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

This is the 29th anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our martyred freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas, and the sole survivor of the August 7,1970 Courthouse Slave Rebellion, Ruchell Cinque Magee. It’s a time to embrace the principles of unity, self-sacrifice, political education, physical fitness and/or…

This is the 29th anniversary of Black August, first organized to honor our martyred freedom fighters, Jonathan and George Jackson, Khatari Gaulden, James McClain, William Christmas,…

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Slavery On The New Plantation – A Report on Today’s Prisons and Jails

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

Slavery is being practiced by the system under color of law – Slavery 400 years ago, slavery today; it’s the same thing, but with a new name. They’re making millions and millions of dollars enslaving Blacks, poor whites, and others – people who don’t even know they’re being railroaded. — Ruchell Cinque Magee (from radio…

Slavery is being practiced by the system under color of law – Slavery 400 years ago, slavery today; it's the same thing, but with a new…

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American Torture Chambers: A Report on Today’s Prisons and Jails

By Kiilu Nyasha Guest Commentator

Maximum security prisons have become common in the U.S. – countless cages housing … people, who rarely if ever see daylight or other people. The recently exposed tortures by American troops at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were part of a long history of prison brutalities in America’s torture chambers. In fact, among the torturers,there…

Maximum security prisons have become common in the U.S. – countless cages housing … people, who rarely if ever see daylight or other people. The recently…

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