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Steve Biko: Political Blackness Wasn't Confusion — It Was Strategy

Jonah Batambuze

Aug 5, 20253 min read

Jayaben Desai standing defiantly during the 1976 Grunwick strike in London, wearing a sari and holding a picket sign, with police lined up in the background. Text reads: 'She Fought In a Sari. And Shook The System. Jayaben Desai 1933–2010. Dignity. Power. Refusal.' Image by BlindianProject.

Jayaben Desai standing defiantly during the 1976 Grunwick strike in London, wearing a sari and holding a picket sign, with police lined up in the background. Text reads: 'She Fought In a Sari. And Shook The System. Jayaben Desai 1933–2010. Dignity. Power. Refusal.' Image by BlindianProject.

Jayaben Desai: She Fought In a Sari. And Shook The System.

Jonah Batambuze

Aug 3, 20252 min read

Black and white image of Roy Sawh, an Indo-Caribbean man wearing dark sunglasses and a suit, raising one arm as if mid-speech or protest. Text overlaid reads: “Indo-Caribbean by birth. Pan-African by conviction.” Below the image, it says: “Roy Sawh (1928–2000). Guyanese. Socialist. Pan-Africanist.”

Black and white image of Roy Sawh, an Indo-Caribbean man wearing dark sunglasses and a suit, raising one arm as if mid-speech or protest. Text overlaid reads: “Indo-Caribbean by birth. Pan-African by conviction.” Below the image, it says: “Roy Sawh (1928–2000). Guyanese. Socialist. Pan-Africanist.”

Roy Sawh: The Indo-Caribbean Activist Who Fought for Black x Brown Solidarity

Jonah Batambuze

Jul 29, 20252 min read

Pio Pinto: Killed For Believing Black Freedom Was His Fight Too

Pio Pinto: Killed For Believing Black Freedom Was His Fight Too

Pio Pinto: Killed For Believing Black Freedom Was His Fight Too

Jonah Batambuze

Jul 15, 20251 min read

Black-and-white portrait of South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba wearing traditional jewelry and headwrap, with quote: 'The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.' Text below reads: Miriam Makeba, 1932–2008

Black-and-white portrait of South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba wearing traditional jewelry and headwrap, with quote: 'The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.' Text below reads: Miriam Makeba, 1932–2008

Miriam Makeba

Jonah Batambuze

Oct 4, 20233 min read

BlindianProject History: Bayard Rustin

BlindianProject History: Bayard Rustin

BlindianProject History: Bayard Rustin

Jonah Batambuze

Sep 1, 20232 min read

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