On October 9, 1960, Ona Zené Yeshitela, formerly Cynthia Diane Clark, was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the city’s southside African community. Her family was of the stone-cold African working class, which came with a host of struggles stemming from colonial poverty and oppression.
On Saturday, October 30, the One Africa! One Nation! Farmers Market in North St. Louis held its final market of the season, a Halloween Festival, featuring fun activities for the whole family.
On September 18, the African community along with independent vendors from far and wide congregated at Philadelphia’s Clark Park to sell to each other, buy from each other and take concrete steps toward building our own independent African economy.
The COVID-19 disease is wreaking havoc on African, Mexican and Indigenous communities. The U.S. government is bailing out Wall Street banks with trillions of dollars. New York, home to the center of white world capitalism, has reported more COVID-19 deaths than 97 percent of all the world’s countries.
