Jamaica, Queens forged a revolutionary in the shadow of Malcolm X. The Black Panther Party built dual power — and the state answered with disruption. Underground struggle met federal conspiracy and thirty-three years of captivity. Elderhood returned him to a new generation still facing the same empire. By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black... Continue Reading →
Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism and the Colonial Blindspot Inside Western Marxism
Black Marxism and the Colonial Blindspot Inside Western Marxism Cedric J. Robinson did not write Black Marxism to abandon Marxism, but to indict the version of it that emerged safely inside empire. By tracing capitalism’s formation through slavery, racial domination, and colonial war, Robinson forces historical materialism to confront what Western Marxism systematically erased. The... Continue Reading →
Malcolm X and the Making of a Revolutionary Internationalist
From colonial violence in the American Midwest to the global battlefields of Africa and Asia, Malcolm’s life traces the sharpening of Black consciousness under empire. His final years mark not moderation but expansion — from religious nationalism to human rights insurgency and anti-imperialist alignment. This essay follows the dialectical arc of his transformation and the... Continue Reading →
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Long Arc of Radicalization
From Talented Tenth Idealism to Communist Internationalism, Du Bois’s Life Exposes the Color Line as a Global System, White Labor’s Imperial Bargain, Reconstruction as Crushed Revolution, and the Unfinished Struggle Against Colonial Capitalism.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 11, 2026I. A Child of Emancipation, Raised in the Shadow... Continue Reading →
John Horse and the Black Seminole War for Freedom
Long before emancipation was declared from Washington, enslaved Africans and Indigenous Seminoles built an armed republic in the Florida swamps. Their alliance waged the longest and most successful slave insurgency in U.S. history. The United States responded with invasion, removal, and counterrevolution. John Horse’s life exposes empire not as destiny, but as a structure contested... Continue Reading →
Harriet Tubman and the Science of Escape: Maroon Strategy, Labor Rebellion, and the Black Woman Who Turned Slavery Against Itself
Harriet Tubman did not merely flee bondage; she attacked the economic foundations of slavery by organizing collective escape, disrupting the immobilization of Black labor, and later striking directly at Confederate infrastructure in war. Emerging from a regime that depended on the total control of Black women’s bodies, she transformed from exploited worker into disciplined strategist,... Continue Reading →
Fred Hampton and the Revolutionary Meaning of Solidarity
Chicago is shown here not as a northern refuge of progress, but as what it actually was and remains: an internal colony where segregation, poverty, and police occupation shaped Fred Hampton into a revolutionary Marxist with no illusions about the system he was up against. From those conditions came a politics willing to go where... Continue Reading →
Tunis Campbell and the Black Republic That White Power Destroyed
Born free in a slave republic, Campbell became an architect of Black self-rule after emancipation. On Georgia’s Sea Islands, freedpeople built land-based democracy before federal power restored white property. Rising to state leadership, he was criminalized as Reconstruction turned into counterrevolution. His life reveals Reconstruction as an unfinished revolution over land, labor, and power. Prince... Continue Reading →
Callie House and the First Mass Reparations Movement in U.S. History
A formerly enslaved woman who helped turn memory of bondage into a national economic claim. Her movement proved reparations was a working-class demand for stolen labor, not a plea for charity. The federal government criminalized her because compensation threatened the racial economic order. Her legacy links Black liberation to the broader struggle over wealth, power,... Continue Reading →
Marcus Garvey and the First Global Black Mass Movement
He turned a scattered people into a political community with a shared destiny. He transformed Black pride from sentiment into organized power. His movement terrified empire because it operated beyond white control. His legacy still shapes Black radical and internationalist struggle today. Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters Series | February 2,... Continue Reading →