In this week’s edition of my Freedom’s Journal column here in The Philadelphia Tribune, I am writing about a historic- and prescient- event in the defense of Black people that took place on May 2, ...

The black freedom movement is framed in popular memory as distinguished by nonviolent civil disobedience. Yet in multiple southern towns, black people used armed self-defense to protect their ...

The Purdue University Police Department has created a new self-defense course. Basic Armed Suspect Evasion and Defense (BASED) is a supplemental course that will be available to anyone who has ...

Inside the Oakland movement that confronted police brutality and built revolutionary social programs. The story of the Black Panther Party begins long before its name appeared in headlines. Oakland in ...

The police have ruled that Nana and her mother’s use of force against an armed robber constituted self-defense. On November 22, the Guri Police Station announced that they intended to forward a man in ...