Theory Thursday: Women’s History Month
In our 2023 Annual Impact Report, we spotlight our significant milestones as an organization and the nationwide impact of our initiatives. Read More
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Heart of the Struggle: A Love Letter to All Political Prisoners
George Jackson, affectionately known as “The Dragon,” became a revolutionary figure while serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 from a gas station in 1961. During his time behind bars, he wrote Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson and Blood in My Eye. Today Jericho remains a vibrant and strong vanguard organization that continues to work nonstop in educating the public about the reality of political prisoners and campaigning to free them. Read More
Toward the United Front | Blood in my Eye
George Jackson, affectionately known as “The Dragon,” became a revolutionary figure while serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 from a gas station in 1961. During his time behind bars, he wrote Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson and Blood in My Eye. Today Jericho remains a vibrant and strong vanguard organization that continues to work nonstop in educating the public about the reality of political prisoners and campaigning to free them. Read More
Black Men Build 2023 Impact Report
In our 2023 Annual Impact Report, we spotlight our significant milestones as an organization and the nationwide impact of our initiatives. Read More
What Makes a Political Prisoner
The Jericho Movement to free all political prisoners was started in 1998 by, then political prisoner, Jalil Muntaqim, the late Safiya Bukhari, and Herman Ferguson. Today Jericho remains a vibrant and strong vanguard organization that continues to work nonstop in educating the public about the reality of political prisoners and campaigning to free them. Read More
Black August: Black Liberation and its Deep Ties to the Month of August
Since 1979, Black August has been invoked as a time of memorial and resistance. Black August is a month-long commitment to a core set of tenets that honor the revolutionary spirit of our freedom fighters—political prisoners, prisoners of war, and exiles—who have given the ultimate sacrifice. Read More
Long Live Dr. Mutulu Shakur
Dr. Mutulu Shakur embodied a lifelong commitment to the struggle and Black Liberation. A veteran of the Republic of New Afrika and the Black Liberation Army, his contributions to the liberation of our people are immeasurable. Read More
Deeper Than Rape
Whenever rape is brought up, the room tenses. Silence seeps in. Niggas get shifty. Energies begin to fill the air: pain, guilt, fear, avoidance, denial, anger, sympathy, dismissal. I‘ve seen it happen. I’ve felt it happen. Read More
Will Dark Skinned Women Ever Be Loved?
Black is Beautiful, ALL Shades of Black. You would think that this would be a no-brainer in these times of “wokeness,” but it seems that after all this time, many of us are still “color struck,” showing obvious favor to light-skinned people as opposed to those of us who are of a darker hue. Read More
An Open Letter to Black Sisters
One might have hoped by this time, by this day–in–age, that the very mention of what seems to have become merely the evening news would be so intolerable amongst us brothers that we might raise our fists for you and with you rather than ever again raise them against you. But, of course, it would then require us to confront ourselves with the time old question of, “How does it feel to be the problem?” Read More
Organizing in the Biden/Harris Administration
Who will overextend themselves in the name of loving Black people for real? Who determines what is required for freedom to become an actualized concept? Our real problems aren’t even on the menu of discussion. No ballot box has ever provided a solution for this reality. Read More
Worth Our Weight In Guns
Our ability to carry and own firearms has been systematically suppressed since before the United States was even a country. Read More
Who Do You Love?
Our hearts are filled with toxic sludge and it overflows into every aspect of our lives. We get relationship advice from JustinLaBoy on IG and niggas that cheat on their wives while they’re preaching to not cheat on your wives. I hate it here, but sometimes I like it. Read More
Who is Afraid of Black Power
A feature from WARTIME Issue 3 released July 1, 2021. An excerpt from WARTIME Issue No. 2… Read More
“Not That bad” a conversation between brothers
An excerpt from a raw conversation between Black Men Build brothers on their relationships with Black Women and how their experiences are forcing them to grow. Read More
For the FATHERS
We gather for all of those who know the feeling of constructing the soul of a warrior. To those who have played a role in shaping our ingredients of self. We say we love you. Read More
Introducing Black Men Build
Our enemies want us dead, deadbeat, defeated, on drugs, incarcerated. Our People – our children, sisters, lil homies, OGs, future family – need us to survive. We are bringing Black men together to engage in this country as an organized force. Read More
