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A black equal rights activist is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the head in south London yesterday. Police are appealing for information after Sasha Johnson, 27, was found with life-threatening injuries in Southwark at about 3am on Sunday morning. In a statement on its Facebook page, the Taking The Initiative Party, a new political group she was part of, said: "It is with great sadness that we inform you that our own Sasha Johnson has sustained a gunshot wound to her head. "Sasha has always been actively fighting for black people and the injustices that...

A white man punched and attempted to choke a black protester who was thrown on the ground at a Donald Trump rally here on Saturday morning, as an onlooker yelled, "Don't choke him! Don't choke him!" The protester, identified by local media as well-known activist Mercutio Southall Jr., started shouting during Trump's speech and could be heard yelling, "Black lives matter!" A fight broke out around him, prompting Trump to briefly halt the rally and demand the removal of Southall. "Get him the hell out of here, will you, please?" Trump said. The crowd alternated between cheering and booing as...

DURHAM – After the inauguration of the first black president, America is now on the precipice of changes that were never before possible, 1960s radical turned academic Angela Davis told a crowd of hundreds at the University of New Hampshire last night. The vestiges of slavery, colonization and exploitation remain rife throughout America, as is evidenced by the over-representation of minorities in prison, Davis said. The prison population, now estimated to be one in 100 adult Americans, only contributes to the oppression of minorities, she said. It is a pattern seen across the country, even in New Hampshire, Davis said....

Barron, a self-proclaimed "elected revolutionary," said if the government did not act swiftly he personally would storm the Treasury Department ( news - web sites) and take the money for reparations.Black activist Louis Farrakhan told the crowd, "America owes the black people a lot for what they've endured." "We need land for political independence, we need millions of acres," Farrakhan added. "We need payment for 310 years of slavery, of destruction of our minds and the robbery of our culture." {/B> The United States, torn apart by the Civil War, abolished slavery in 1865. Some people argue that even 137...

Frontline NewService: HANDS OFF CYNTHIA McKINNEY Posted on April 23, 2002 HANDS OFF CYNTHIA McKINNEY by Sis. Shemia Miller The Sisters Community is calling for All Black People who would like uncompromising leadership in the government, to support Representative Cynthia McKinney. We are calling for All Black People to stand behind her *right* to speak out against what she feel is a compromised government. How many leaders in the community with positions in the government are so COURAGEOUS to do so? How many can we count them on our hands? I did not think so. We ask all of you...