THE KILLING OF WALTER RODNEY

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THE KILLING OF WALTER RODNEY

On the evening of June 13, 1980, a bomb blast shook a neighborhood in Georgetown, Guyana and took the life of Black scholar, writer and activist Walter Rodney. Few Black people in the United States, or elsewhere around the world felt the explosion, but it was an event that shook our lives to their very foundations. The assassination of Walter […]

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