Black Salutations
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Veli Mbele
Veli Mbele is an Afrocentric essayist and secretary of the Black Power Front.
59 published stories
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Stories by Veli Mbele
Black Salutations
A Letter to Mkhulu Mangaliso Sobukwe
I decided to write this letter to you to share my thoughts with you about where I think we find ourselves as Afrikan people. We learn from the older generation of activists about your glorious deeds and the immeasurable...
Culture
De Klerk Must Be Prosecuted Qha!
Today De Klerk and his family are enjoying tax-payer- sponsored VIP status and regular invitations to various SONA events. What did the families of these murdered Black people get?
Black Salutations
“They Are Going to Kill Me Soon” – Omowale El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Malcolm X
Like many Black consciousness activists of my generation, the name Malcolm X occupies a profoundly special place in my heart. I remember during our student activist days how Warrior Mendo Ramncwana and I used to dedicate...
Black Salutations
75th Anniversay Of The Birth Of Robert Nesta Marley |1945-1981
Culture
REVIEW: Vuka Machel – A Blacks Only Conversation
It is for this and other reasons that, I regard Vuka Machel as a rare and beautiful moment of Black resistance. A moment of resistance at a time when many of us Black people have c...
Culture
We Blacks Are Afraid Of Whites
When I say we Blacks are afraid of whites I don't necessarily mean an individual Black person is afraid to engage in a physical confrontation with a white person. Neither do I refer to our individual anxieties about coll...
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