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 →
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 →
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 →
Lil’ Bobby Hutton and the Generation That Refused to Beg
A teenage Panther whose life exposed the colonial reality inside the United States. His political awakening marked the rise of organized Black revolutionary youth. His killing revealed how the state responds when the oppressed build power.His memory remains a lesson in struggle, organization, and historical continuity. Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | Black History Matters... Continue Reading →
An Act of State: Martin Luther King Jr., Political Assassination, and the Crime of Empire
William F. Pepper’s An Act of State dismantles the myth of a tragic killing and exposes the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as a deliberate act of governance—carried out to halt a revolutionary convergence of anti-imperialism, class struggle, and mass organization inside the United States. This MLK Day intervention refuses memorialization and restores King... Continue Reading →
The Original Psy-Op: Race and the Making of the American Empire
Long before propaganda and mass media, there was race—the ruling class’s first great psychological operation. It turned conquest into freedom, slavery into destiny, and a continent of nations into one empire under disguise.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized InformationOctober 4, 2025Preface: Excavating the Mask to Clarify the TerrainThis essay sits inside the Race/Class 101 project as... Continue Reading →
Assata Shakur and Charlie Kirk: Two Martyrs, Two Americas
One died free in exile, a symbol of liberation; the other died at home, a symbol of reaction. Their lives and deaths mirror the split soul of America, caught between empire and freedom.By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | September 26, 2025Death as a Mirror of EmpireIn September 2025, two deaths shook the American political... Continue Reading →