Black people in 25 different countries, 37 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia signed the statement, including South Africa, Australia, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Palestine, & Puerto Rico.
Of the 1,100+ signatories, there are 650 activists or organizers, 400 current students, 240 artists, 165 scholars or professors, and 22 clergy.
12 currently incarcerated political prisoners, at least 5 former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and 6 professional hip-hop artists signed the statement.
Nearly 50 organizations signed onto the statement:
African Awareness Association - Richmond, VA | All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC) - USA | Amistad Law Project - West Philadelphia, PA | Assata's Daughters- Chicago, IL | Baltimore Bloc - Baltimore, MD | Barry University Black Student Union - Miami, FL | Black Autonomy Federation-North East Branch - New York, NY | Black Bottom, LLC - Detroit, MI | Black Student Alliance at Yale - New Haven, CT | Black Student Alliance Executive Board - St. Louis University, MO | Black Student Union at UC Berkeley - Berkeley, CA | Black Unity Group - San Jose State University, CA | Black Workers for Justice - North Carolina | BlaQue UCLA - Los Angeles, CA | Coalition of African Lesbians - Africa | Columbia University Black Students' Organization - New York, NY | Columbus Coalition on Mental Health, Addiction & Mass Incarceration - Columbus, OH | The Cornerstone - Boston, MA | Detroit Youth Volume - Detroit, MI | Dorothy Cotton Institute - Ithaca, NY | The Dream Defenders - Miami, FL | The Freedom Archives - San Francisco, CA | Friends of the Congo - Washington, DC | Hands Up United - St. Louis, MO | Institute of the Black World 21st Century - Atlanta, GA | The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership - Detroit, MI | Madre Tierra Collective - Washington, DC | Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - New Afrika | Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) - St. Louis, MO | Mothers Against Discrimination and Racism - Netherlands | Muslim American Society - South Florida | Muslims for Economic, Racial and Reproductive Justice - United States | Network for the Elimination of Police Violence - Toronto, Canada | New Afrikan Independence Party - Pittsburgh, PA | New Jim Crow Movement - Jacksonville, FL | ONE DC - Washington, DC | Organization for Black Struggle - St. Louis, MO | Peace by Piece - United States | Progressive Millennials for Action - Chicago, IL | San Francisco Bayview - San Francisco, CA | Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts - Medford, MA | Tribe X - St. Louis, MO | Tufts Pan-African Alliance - Medford, MA | UCLA Afrikan Student Union - Los Angeles, CA | Ujima People's Progress Party - Baltimore, MD | We Are The Ones Coalition - Boston, MA | We The People of Detroit - Detroit, MI | Wisdom Within Health & Wellness - Columbus, OH | Women of Colour Global Women's Strike UK - United Kingdom
Here is a list of some of our prominent signatories:
Aaron Dixon - former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party
Angela Davis - prison abolitionist, scholar and activist targeted by the FBI and State of California in 1970
Ayuub Abdul-Alim - political prisoner incarcerated in 2014 after refusing to become an informant for the FBI
Barbara Ransby - historian and author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Bill Fletcher, Jr. - racial justice, labor, and international activist
Boots Riley - lead vocalist of The Coup
Charles E. Simmons - professor emeritus, foreign correspondent, signatory to 1970 NYT ad against Zionism
Clarence Thomas - labor activist from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10
Cornel West - Professor at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
Davey D Cook - radio journalist, adjunct professor, Hip Hop historian, and community activist
David Gilbert* - political prisoner, former member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground
dream hampton - writer, award winning filmmaker, and organizer
Eddie Conway - former Minister of Defense for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party
Emory Douglas - Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party
Fred Moten - professor and author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Jasiri X - emcee and political activist
Keith H. Washington - political prisoner and reporter on human rights abuses within the Texas prison system
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson - political prisoner and Minister of Defense for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter
Kwame Somburu - author of the 1970 New York Times ad of Black scholars and activists in support of Palestine
Larry Pinkney - former Black Panther and former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa
Luci Murphy - prominent singer and activist for international solidarity and progressive causes
Mumia Abu-Jamal - political prisoner, award-winning radio journalist, and author of seven books
Pam Africa - head of International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Patrisse Cullors - co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Phil Hutchings - former spokesperson, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Ramona Africa - sole adult survivor of the Philadelphia Police 1985 bombing of the MOVE headquarters
Rev. Edward Pinkney - activist, scholar, writer, and current poltical prisoner in Michigan.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou - St. Louis-raised organizer, author and pastor currently active in Ferguson
Robert Seth Hayes - political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
Roger Toussaint - former president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100
Robin DG Kelley - Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA
Rosa Clemente - 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate
S.E. Anderson - founding member of the Black Panther Party, former SNCC member, & signatory to 1970 NYT ad
Shaka Zulu - political prisoner, chairman of the New African Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter
Shaylanna Luvme - artist, organizer, writer, political prisoner
Siddique Abdullah Hasan - revolutionary & political prisoner
Son of Nun - Baltimore-based political hip-hop artist
Sundiata Acoli - political prisoner, comrade of Assata Shakur, and former member of the Black Liberation Army
T. Torricellas - prison activist and political prisoner
Talib Kweli - Brooklyn-based rapper
Tef Poe - St. Louis-raised rapper and organizer with Hands Up United
*Not Black, but convicted and serving prison time for collaborating with the Black Liberation Army. We welcomed signatures from political prisoners meeting this criterion.
Of the 1,100+ signatories, there are 650 activists or organizers, 400 current students, 240 artists, 165 scholars or professors, and 22 clergy.
12 currently incarcerated political prisoners, at least 5 former members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and 6 professional hip-hop artists signed the statement.
Nearly 50 organizations signed onto the statement:
African Awareness Association - Richmond, VA | All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC) - USA | Amistad Law Project - West Philadelphia, PA | Assata's Daughters- Chicago, IL | Baltimore Bloc - Baltimore, MD | Barry University Black Student Union - Miami, FL | Black Autonomy Federation-North East Branch - New York, NY | Black Bottom, LLC - Detroit, MI | Black Student Alliance at Yale - New Haven, CT | Black Student Alliance Executive Board - St. Louis University, MO | Black Student Union at UC Berkeley - Berkeley, CA | Black Unity Group - San Jose State University, CA | Black Workers for Justice - North Carolina | BlaQue UCLA - Los Angeles, CA | Coalition of African Lesbians - Africa | Columbia University Black Students' Organization - New York, NY | Columbus Coalition on Mental Health, Addiction & Mass Incarceration - Columbus, OH | The Cornerstone - Boston, MA | Detroit Youth Volume - Detroit, MI | Dorothy Cotton Institute - Ithaca, NY | The Dream Defenders - Miami, FL | The Freedom Archives - San Francisco, CA | Friends of the Congo - Washington, DC | Hands Up United - St. Louis, MO | Institute of the Black World 21st Century - Atlanta, GA | The James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership - Detroit, MI | Madre Tierra Collective - Washington, DC | Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - New Afrika | Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) - St. Louis, MO | Mothers Against Discrimination and Racism - Netherlands | Muslim American Society - South Florida | Muslims for Economic, Racial and Reproductive Justice - United States | Network for the Elimination of Police Violence - Toronto, Canada | New Afrikan Independence Party - Pittsburgh, PA | New Jim Crow Movement - Jacksonville, FL | ONE DC - Washington, DC | Organization for Black Struggle - St. Louis, MO | Peace by Piece - United States | Progressive Millennials for Action - Chicago, IL | San Francisco Bayview - San Francisco, CA | Spoken Word Alliance at Tufts - Medford, MA | Tribe X - St. Louis, MO | Tufts Pan-African Alliance - Medford, MA | UCLA Afrikan Student Union - Los Angeles, CA | Ujima People's Progress Party - Baltimore, MD | We Are The Ones Coalition - Boston, MA | We The People of Detroit - Detroit, MI | Wisdom Within Health & Wellness - Columbus, OH | Women of Colour Global Women's Strike UK - United Kingdom
Here is a list of some of our prominent signatories:
Aaron Dixon - former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party
Angela Davis - prison abolitionist, scholar and activist targeted by the FBI and State of California in 1970
Ayuub Abdul-Alim - political prisoner incarcerated in 2014 after refusing to become an informant for the FBI
Barbara Ransby - historian and author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Bill Fletcher, Jr. - racial justice, labor, and international activist
Boots Riley - lead vocalist of The Coup
Charles E. Simmons - professor emeritus, foreign correspondent, signatory to 1970 NYT ad against Zionism
Clarence Thomas - labor activist from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10
Cornel West - Professor at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
Davey D Cook - radio journalist, adjunct professor, Hip Hop historian, and community activist
David Gilbert* - political prisoner, former member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground
dream hampton - writer, award winning filmmaker, and organizer
Eddie Conway - former Minister of Defense for the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party
Emory Douglas - Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party
Fred Moten - professor and author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition
Jasiri X - emcee and political activist
Keith H. Washington - political prisoner and reporter on human rights abuses within the Texas prison system
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson - political prisoner and Minister of Defense for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter
Kwame Somburu - author of the 1970 New York Times ad of Black scholars and activists in support of Palestine
Larry Pinkney - former Black Panther and former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa
Luci Murphy - prominent singer and activist for international solidarity and progressive causes
Mumia Abu-Jamal - political prisoner, award-winning radio journalist, and author of seven books
Pam Africa - head of International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Patrisse Cullors - co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Phil Hutchings - former spokesperson, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Ramona Africa - sole adult survivor of the Philadelphia Police 1985 bombing of the MOVE headquarters
Rev. Edward Pinkney - activist, scholar, writer, and current poltical prisoner in Michigan.
Rev. Osagyefo Sekou - St. Louis-raised organizer, author and pastor currently active in Ferguson
Robert Seth Hayes - political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
Roger Toussaint - former president of the Transport Workers Union Local 100
Robin DG Kelley - Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA
Rosa Clemente - 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate
S.E. Anderson - founding member of the Black Panther Party, former SNCC member, & signatory to 1970 NYT ad
Shaka Zulu - political prisoner, chairman of the New African Black Panther Party, Prison Chapter
Shaylanna Luvme - artist, organizer, writer, political prisoner
Siddique Abdullah Hasan - revolutionary & political prisoner
Son of Nun - Baltimore-based political hip-hop artist
Sundiata Acoli - political prisoner, comrade of Assata Shakur, and former member of the Black Liberation Army
T. Torricellas - prison activist and political prisoner
Talib Kweli - Brooklyn-based rapper
Tef Poe - St. Louis-raised rapper and organizer with Hands Up United
*Not Black, but convicted and serving prison time for collaborating with the Black Liberation Army. We welcomed signatures from political prisoners meeting this criterion.
