Events

April 17, 8:00pm EST | Theory Thursday: Malcolm X in Kenya Pt. 2 Last month, we explored Malcolm X’s powerful visit to Kenya and… Read More

Black August Events Calendar

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

Claudia De la Cruz x WARTIME Interview

In April of 2024, Ekundayo, Black Men Build’s Director of Political Education & Culture, interviewed Claudia de la Cruz with the Party of Socialism and Liberation, and of The People’s Forum. They touched on personal interests including reading materials by revolutionaries and artists like Diego Rivera and Elizabeth Catlett, as well as a mutual appreciation for nineties hip-hop and contemporary artists such as Megan Thee Stallion. Read More

Cornel West x WARTIME Interview

In April of 2024, Ekundayo, Black Men Build’s Director of Political Education & Culture, interviewed Dr. Cornel West during which they touched on various topics, from personal milestones to social causes. Cornel shared insights from his upcoming lectures on philosophy and jazz music, emphasizing love, community connection, vulnerability, intimacy, and wounded healing. He and Ekundayo delved into the interplay between Black culture and white supremacy, advocating for freedom and the end of wars. Cornel emphasized the need for abolition in various forms to challenge militarized mentalities. Read More

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

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

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

Respect and Black Men

In a drinking game segment, Drink Champs host Noriega asks guests to pick one: loyalty or respect. Most of the people I’ve heard go with loyalty, explaining that someone can respect you and still do you dirty. In fact, it’s basically the only answer that makes sense, because respect has little value if the person in question feels they owe you nothing.  Read More

Community Protection

The world we live in operates off of rules and regulations, codes of conduct, and parameters that dictate how groups and individuals interact with one another. Read More

Where The Money Go?

There are a lot of opinions about the “Defund the Police” movement, but as an abolitionist and someone who loves data, it is one of the most successful campaigns in terms of concrete wins that I have seen in awhile - especially for a campaign that grew from a moment of spontaneous mobilizing. Read More

What is a Capitalist?

Written by Asa ShawAn Article from WARTIME Issue No. 4 There is a specter haunting our people. It covers our eyes and prompts us to… Read More

Money, Power, Respect Intro

It feels so good to have it.  To know it’s yours.  It feels like you’re closer to the image of the men you grew up admiring.  Feels like you conquered a piece of the world and you’re rewarded for what you did. It’s status.  It’s comfort.  It’s safety.  It’s power.  It’s attraction.  It’s a dream come true.  An American Dream. Read More

Revoking Cash Bail

Written by Ronnie AyminArticle from WARTIME Issue No. 4 Angela Davis once said, “I am no longer accepting the things that I cannot change. Read More

Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme?

Written by Ed WhitfieldAn Article from WARTIME Issue No. 4 // Video from BMB Mass Meeting I’m not qualified to give investment advice. So… Read More

New Men Must Be Born

by phil agnewFrom WARTIME Issue No. 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlUjWyQWtg0&t=51s “These are new men, new types of human beings … These… 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

BMB Power 50 STL

sent and future of St. Louis.  We honor our Black family that represents all walks of life and service that are contributing to the Black Community in St. Louis being powerful and pushing forward our culture. 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

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

The Revolution is at a Gala

Oh, you lookin for Revolution? Revolution is at a gala Gucci clutch Birkin bagged Award winning paneling at the people. Revolution get paid… 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

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