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IANA Blog- October 2025

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  Blog Happy October, For this month’s blog, I wanted to pay tribute to a political activist, revolutionary, one of the faces of the Black Power/Black Liberation movement and one of the greatest freedom fighters to ever live, Assata Shakur, who died on September 25th, five days before October started. Assata passed away from health issues in Havana, Cuba. Before I go on, I wanted to talk about who she was before I pay tribute to her, especially for members of IANA who don’t know who Assata Shakur was. Assata Shakur was born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947 in New York City. She lived between New York and Wilmington, North Carolina. Because her family struggled with poverty and argued over it, she would run away and live with her aunt Evelyn A. Williams, who was a civil rights worker, who she looked up to. Assata would later get a GED after dropping out of Cathedral High School, a Catholic all-girls high school in Manhattan, New York. She had dealt with discrimination from her ...
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IANA Blog- September 2025

  Blog Happy September, I was actually gonna talk about something different, maybe even talk about the death of former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari. But, you know what, I want to talk about something that happened this September 10th. I wanted to talk about the death of right wing “activist” C****** K*** and the US media circus that is happening around it. I know what you’re thinking. What does C****** K***  have to do with IANA? He doesn’t, but I feel like I have to say something about this. For those that don’t know who C****** K***  is, like I mentioned, he is a right-wing political “activist,” author and media personality. He co-founded T****** P**** USA in 2012, a right-wing, conservative political organization that advocates for conservative politics in high schools, colleges and university campuses across America. K*** became one of the most prominent voices of right-wing politics in the last couple of years. He also held debates on co...
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IANA Blog- August 2025

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  Blog Happy August and Happy Black August, For those that remember in 2023, I talked about Black August on my August blog. As mentioned, Black August is when we commemorate the Black political prisoners, freedom fighters and revolutionaries who were assassinated, martyred and had their lives sacrificed in order to fight for liberation, along with the many Black freedom struggles in the U.S., initiated by the Black Guerilla Family after the assassination of revolutionary George Jackson and his brother, Jonathan. In honor of Black August and similar to the February 2022 blog on Black History Month, the March 2023 blog on Women’s History Month and the June 2024 blog on Pride month, I wanted to focus this month’s blog on some of the political prisoners and freedom fighters to come out of Nigeria and who just like the many Black political prisoners and freedom fighters who fought for liberation in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and everywhere, these political prisoners and freedom fight...
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