US-Africa Bridge Building Project

03/03/2026

02/27/2026

Interconnected Justice and Friends of the Congo have produced an important resource for accountability, economic justice, and solidarity!


Network for Africa - Adna
Africa Network

In early February, the United States gathered global leaders to discuss minerals and security.But security for whom?In 2025, over 250,000 Black women lost th...

02/26/2026

BRIAN KAGORO DETAINED AND DEPORTED FROM KENYA
Please see and endorse the Pan-African Lawyers Union Press Statement regarding the detention and deportation of Brian Kagoro. If you don't know him, Brian is a brilliant Pan-Africanist, thought leader, and the Open Society Foundation's Managing Director for Programs. See Open Society's Statement here: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/.../open-society....
Brian is from Zimbabwe and has been a guiding light in the country's struggle for participatory democracy.
Please join me and the 100s of others from around the world who have signed the statement at: https://sites.google.com/view/request-for-endorsement/home?link_id=2&can_id=d5ad0e3f7f57d6e6b69c0a09b791a1e9&source=email-request-for-signature-endorsement&email_referrer=email_3117727&email_subject=request-for-signature-endorsement&&

02/19/2026

Zoom registration link: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AnX26J6Mj6Na2vyJsqEMPNQXk1xdFS10Si-urOT5oko1ilhhcmJv~AmJdly0Dm4j17BbGR5oZ-Yqav7OIclxigGeDMvrOQaYK3dmnLRj9hdhmrA

02/17/2026

Rev. Jackson, thank you for your lifelong commitment to justice and equality. Your role in the global fight against political apartheid will be remembered.

01/07/2026

08/31/2024

This upcoming Labor Day comes in the midst of union victories — and ever-increasing challenges for frontline workers and teachers.

What could be more important for our students than to learn that progress toward greater justice has occurred only when people have organized together and fought for it?

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills.

The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach.

Find examples at the link below of free lessons and other resources about labor history, including selected “This Day in People’s History” ( ) stories.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/labor-history-censored-on-labor-day/

08/31/2024

Read & Recommended or Otherwise Noted

08/31/2024

August 31, , marks the anniversary of the largest civil insurrection in U.S. history after the Civil War. This uprising was the climax of two mine wars fought in the West Virginia coalfields from 1912-1921.

At a time when many citizens are worrying about “economic inequality,” when conservatives are bewailing the use of “class warfare” language, when “insurgents” are still being imprisoned without due process, when police forces in poor communities are being privatized and militarized, when banks are ordering evictions, it is worth discovering, exploring and understanding the West Virginia mine wars — a profound but largely unknown expression of class struggle.

Armed insurgency erupted in the coal mining counties of southern West Virginia in late August of 1921, when an army of more than 8,000 rifle-bearing union miners marched toward Mingo County on the Kentucky border. They intended to liberate other miners and their families from the tyranny imposed by private mine guards who had terrorized the region for more than a decade, and from a regime of martial law imposed by the governor.

Armed warfare erupted on August 31, 1921, on Blair Mountain in Logan County when the miners’ army clashed with armed forces marshaled by the county sheriff, the coal companies, and the state police.

The three-day Battle of Blair Mountain was the climax of a war that had rocked West Virginia since the early years of the twentieth century when the United Mine Workers, led by Mother Jones, tried repeatedly to pe*****te tightly controlled company coal towns.

Continue reading this post about the Battle of Blair Mountain by James Green and find related resources for teaching outside the textbook about this important history at the link below.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/battle-of-blair-mountain/

10/29/2023

We rarely post information on issues outside the African continent; this recent distribution from Africa Focus Notes, however, is an important contribution to understanding the current crisis in the Middle East.

Willful Blindness at the Top in Israel and the USA

10/14/2023

Register for this upcoming event:

Register now for the in-person and online launch of FACT’s new report analyzing the linkages between U.S. financial secrecy and environmental crimes in the Amazon region.