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A reminder that the SUNU Journal website has many free resources (PDFs of books/printed material, links to videos) for you to peruse and download located under the SUNU Studies tab. All material is gathered from the public domain. Translations available wherever possible. Pictured here: 1. All African People’s Conference leaflet, 1958 2. The Black Panther newspaper, May 15 1967 3. The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 4. Cahier d'un Retour Au Pays Natal by Aimé Césaire (French) 5. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney 6. Souffles, revue culturelle arabe du Maghreb (several issues available; French) 7. The first International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists, 1956 published + organized by Presence Africaine 8. Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah #SUNUstudies #SUNUjournal

The devastating events that have unfolded and continue to unfold in Gaza and Palestine at large have culminated into one of the bleakest chapters in the history of Palestine since the Nakba, and one of the darkest chapters of our lifetime. I’ve expressed before how important it is to name a thing resolutely, and not dress it up in rhetoric to sidestep truth. We are witnessing a genocide in real time; an intentional erasure of a people, culture and bloodlines. Anyone who is engaged in emancipatory politics, coalition building between oppressed, marginalized + colonized people, and who fundamentally operates from a clear heart + conscious, should condemn the long, enduring plight of Palestinian people and the genocide taking place. In every iteration of my work, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist ethics + values are embedded and articulated. If you follow me, and/or @sunujournal , my position on Palestine and my disdain for all historical and contemporary systems of oppression + subjugation should come as no surprise. And if it does, that’s an issue of cognitive dissonance on your part. If I evoke the names and work of those who have been assassinated, censored, imprisoned, exiled for taking a principled stand against injustice and indignation, then my principles should reflect theirs. Performative righteousness does not resonate with me. The history of Pan-African solidarity with Palestine is long and it continues today with those of us who truly believe in tangible decolonization and true liberation. Liberation struggles across borders and seas are connected and reflections of one another. Amílcar Cabral once said: “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.” Free Palestine and all oppressed populations. 🖤 Artwork on slide 1: “Solidarity”, September 2018 by Aaron Hughes via Just Seeds

Potraits from the South African photo studio Z.J.S Ndimande and Sons, ca. 1970s. Z.J.S Ndimande founded his photo studio in KwaZulu Natal (then Greytown) in the 1940s with his son Richard. Richard Ndimande took over the family business from his father in the late 1960s. Under apartheid and its "resettlement" policies, the Z.J.S Ndiamande studio was forced to relocate from its original location to a township called eNhlalakahle. These portraits were taken in the eNhalalakahle studio. Courtesy of Bonhams.  #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Fred Hampton, activist, revolutionary socialist + chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on this day in 1948. On speaking about the The Black Panther Party and their responsibility as the vanguard party, Hampton said: “The difference between the people and the vanguard is very important. You got to understand that the people follow the vanguard. You got to understand that the Black Panther Party IS the vanguard. If you are about going to the people you got to understand that the vanguard leads the people. After the social revolution, the vanguard party, through our educational programs—and that program is overwhelming—the people are educated to the point that they can run things themselves. That’s what you call educating the people, organizing the people, arming the people and bringing them revolutionary political power. That means people’s power. That means the people’s revolution. And if you’re not about being involved in a people’s revolution then you got to do something. You got to support the people’s revolution” (1969). Photos of Hampton ca. 1969, ©Chicago Sun-Times Media, Inc. Via the Chicago History Museum #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Today marks the 60th anniversary of The March on Washington, August 28th 1963. Photographs taken by Leonard Freed, and published in the book titled This Is the Day: The March on Washington. © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Notting Hill Carnival, London, ca. 1990-1992. Photographs by Peter Marshall #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Portraits from the series + book “Portraits de Français,” 2006 by Luc Choquer. #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

[Continuation of previous post] Photographs taken by Hiroji Kubota while documenting the Black Panthers across America in the 1960s. Images in this photo set were taken in Chicago, Illinois and the Deep South, ca. 1968-1969. Photo 1 features Chairman Fred Hampton speaking during a meeting. Courtesy of Magnum Photos. #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Photographs taken by Hiroji Kubota while documenting the Black Panthers across America in the 1960s. Images in this photo set were taken in Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1968-1969. Courtesy of Magnum Photos. #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

[Continuation of previous post] Photographs taken by Lily Franey (@lily_franey_photographe ) during Carnival in Guinea Bissau, 1987. The masks are hand-made using paper mâché and are the carnival’s centerpieces. During carnival, a children’s parade is one of the main events. Images + info courtesy of Ashawnta Jackson, via Atlas Obscura. #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Photographs taken by Lily Franey (@lily_franey_photographe ) during Carnival in Guinea Bissau, 1987. The masks are hand-made using paper mâché and are the carnival’s centerpieces. During carnival, a children’s parade is one of the main events. Images + info courtesy of Ashawnta Jackson, via Atlas Obscura. #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

Today is World Photography Day and to honor the occasion, here is a selection of photographs in which a few masterful photographers have turned the camera on themselves through the art of self-portraiture. Photo 1: Malick Sidibé, courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery Photo 2: Felicia Abban, © Felicia Abban Estate Photo 3: Seydou Keïta, © SKPEAC, courtesy Danzinger Gallery Photo 4: Samuel Fosso, © Samuel Fosso, courtesy Jean-Marc Patras, Paris Photo 5: Oumar Ka, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photo 6: Jean Depara, courtesy of CAACART - The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection Photo 7: Sanlé Sory, courtesy of Yossi Milo gallery Photo 8: Gordon Parks, © Gordon Parks Foundation Photo 9: Carrie Mae Weems, © Carrie Mae Weems, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman gallery Photo 10: Chief S.O. Alonge, courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal