Pambazuka News is pleased to invite you to a virtual global town hall meeting on February 1, 2026 on the Theme: The Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela and Its Enemies.  Pambazuka, in keeping with its mandate as a platform of information on global Africa is holding a meeting on the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela and its implications for Africa and the Global South.  Following the abduction of Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores, by the US military in a period of US hegemonic decline, it is urgent that the full meaning of these developments, in all their implications, be understood. Among the issues that will be discussed include an examination of the internal and external forces opposed to the Bolivarian Revolution; the socio-economic realities of Venezuela inclusive of its internal class and racial dynamics; the history of US intervention and regime change in the global south; and the examination of empire in a period of internal crisis and loss of global hegemony.

Panelists:
- David Ab

NEW LOCATION: The 55^th Annual International African Arts Festival. The 2026 event will take place at Lincoln Terrace Park on the concrete courts, located on Buffalo Avenue between Eastern Parkway and East New York Avenue. We are finalizing our artisan/vendor application. Due to space limitations opportunities for vending are limited.

We will be hosting our second Vendor Zoom meeting on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 6:45 PM EST to provide updates for those interested in securing space at our new venue. We greatly look forward to connecting with you all.

January 20, 2026 Vendor Zoom Link: 
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MORE INFO: 
International African Arts Festival 1360 Fulton Street Brooklyn, New York 11216 USA

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Memorial Tribute in Honor of
Sekou Mgobozi Abdullah Odinga

Saturday, June 8, 2024 • 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd., Harlem, NY (@135th St.)

Please RSVP at the below link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/memorial-tribute-in-honor-of-sekou-odinga-tickets-899036200477

The event will be live streamed to the Schomburg Center's YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVJiksZce3w

This celebration will be co-hosted by asha bandele & Aiyisha Obafemi with performances
by Liza Jessie Peterson, Mutulu 'M1' Olugbala of dead prez, Impact Repertory Theatre.

Doors Open @ 6pm with reception & light refreshments. Tribute begins promptly @ 7pm.

RSVP required

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Many of us have been aware of the radical, grassroots community-building experiment taking place in the poorest capital city in the USA: Cooperation Jackson (CJ) of Mississippi. This Friday, the inspiring co-founders of CJ, Kali Akuno and Saki Hall, along with RnB’s own Matt Meyer, co-editor with Kali of the recently released Jackson Rising Redux. will be featured at the main New York book launch, hosted at union hall SEIU 1199. The conversation will detail both the work in Jackson, warts and all, as well as the work needed in our city and region to build a people’s fight-back movement. Bring your questions, ideas, and information about your organizing efforts, as we turn the evening into a major Spring 2024 networking event!
SOURCE: Bob Lederer <ledererbob@gmail.com> VIA Rnb-local-pp mailing list and SmaiTawi email list

For everyone who is agonizing over the state of the world and wants to find out about and be part radically changing everything... come find out about and get involved with Revolution Books—the center for the movement for a real revolution in this time—step into, contribute to Revolution Books, and learn more.

KEMETIC MARTIAL ARTS CONFERENCE

@

AME church 137th & Lennox Avenue

FEB 10, 2024 @ 1P TO 6P

Chapter Services of Reflexology & Chair Massage

Brother G with African Novels

Community Empowerment Mission Inc. & Boyer Lodge#1

Presents Its 24th Annual

KEMETIC MASTERS OF THE MARTIAL ARTS/NATURAL HEALTH HERO EXPO

Saturday, February 10th, 2024, 1pm-6pm

Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

140-6 West 137Th Street, New York, NY 10030

Join us in commemorating the legacy of all our Indigenous Warriors of the past, the present & our future. Featuring Live Demonstrations in KARATE,KUNG-FU, Tae-Kwon-Do, JIU- JITSU, JUDO, BOXING,52, MMA,Capoeira, Drums,Hip-Hop

Health, Wellness, Fun, Fitness 4 The Whole Family.

Hosted by Natural Health Hero's Dr.Shaka Zulu, Special Guest Speaker Mfundishi Jhuty Heru El-Salim author of "Spiritual Warriors Are Healers"

Youths 16 years under $5. Adults $10.

CASHAPP NATURAL HEALTH HERO & For information call 347-391-9685

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A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s

In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of the New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s, including thrilling stories about the politically important Bed-Stuy venue The East and the author's tutelage under composer and long-time Archie Shepp collaborator Cal Massey. Along the way, Abdullah covers his spiritual development as a Buddhist, battles with addiction, tribulations as a father, lessons from Sun Ra and working life as an educator and cab driver.

Trumpeter and educator Ahmed Abdullah was born in Harlem in 1947. An important figure in the New York loft jazz movement, in 1972 he formed a group called Abdullah, two years before joining the Sun Ra Arkestra, with whom he pl

Celebration of Life
Sista Viola Plummer
Sunrise February 16,1937

January 15, 2024 Sunset

December 12th Movement "D-12"

Viewing & Wake

Friday, January 26, 2024 * 4pm to 7pm

J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home

179-24 Linden Blvd, St. Albans, Queens

Funeral Service
Saturday, January 27, 2024 * 5pm to 8pm

House of the Lord Church

415 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

*Memorial donations may be made to Harriet Tubman Fannie Lou Hamer.

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Joined by Sha-Asia Medina, Director of The Village Afrocentric Cultural, Learning, and Healing Center, we will celebrate the first night of Kwanzaa with a Kinara lighting, discussion about the holiday, and a showing of the film The Black Candle. The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle (narrated by Maya Angelou) traces the holiday’s growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over millions of celebrants. Q&A to follow. Zawadi (gifts) will be provided for all attendees.

Free and open to all. Register her

Joined by Sha-Asia Medina, Director of The Village Afrocentric Cultural, Learning, and Healing Center, we will celebrate the first night of Kwanzaa with a Kinara lighting, discussion about the holiday, and a showing of the film The Black Candle. The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle (narrated by Maya Angelou) traces the holiday’s growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over millions of celebrants. Q&A to follow. Zawadi (gifts) will be provided for all attendees.

Free and open to all. Register her

Joined by Sha-Asia Medina, Director of The Village Afrocentric Cultural, Learning, and Healing Center, we will celebrate the first night of Kwanzaa with a Kinara lighting, discussion about the holiday, and a showing of the film The Black Candle. The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle (narrated by Maya Angelou) traces the holiday’s growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over millions of celebrants. Q&A to follow. Zawadi (gifts) will be provided for all attendees.

Free and open to all. Register her