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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

New Afrikan Peoples Organization

The New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO) was formed in 1984. From its beginnings, the NAPO was a coalition-based organization, focused largely on cadre-building and developing the grassroots support for a New Afrikan nation-state. Rather than seeing themselves as the immediate leaders of a political movement, the NAPO directly centered the local organizing struggles of various New Afrikan formations and attempted to bridge their collective struggles towards establishing the nation-state. In contrast to the PG, the NAPO was very explicit about being a revolutionary socialist, Pan-Africanist organization. The NAPO was clear that democratic centralism would be a key component in facilitating the development of their state power.

In contrast to civil rights movement-era organizations, the NAPO made it very clear in its creation that socialism was a core component of the NAIM. They recognized their struggle for liberation as intrinsically linked to other Black people abroad, specifically under the political objective of Pan-Africanism, defined as “the Total Liberation and Unification of Africa Under Scientific Socialism” as laid out by the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). The NAPO carries the most obvious, direct relationship to the PG’s organizing legacy and has since continued to spawn more organizations relevant to this present moment.  In its most The most prominent formation active today that is directly tied to the founding and development of the RNA is the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). 

Documents

New Afrikan Declaration of Independence New Afrikan Declaration of Independence
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: MonographCollection: New Afrikan Peoples Organization
Reproduction. The New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, a profile of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO), the text of the founding statement of NAPO, why we use the term New Afrikan, why we say free the land, New Afrikan creed, Principles and Programme of Action of NAPO, Message from the Chairman Chokwe Lumumba, Who Are the New Afrikan Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War.
By Any Means Necessary Vol. 4-3 By Any Means Necessary Vol. 4-3
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationVolume Number: Vol. 4-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Peoples Organization
Cover Stories: The US Government War on the Black Nation Continues! Dr. Mutulu Shakur sentenced to 60 years, Marilyn Buck Receives 50. America on Trial No Justice No Peace; The Jackson Factor and the Rumble in Atlanta.
By Any Means Necessary Fall/Winter 1991 By Any Means Necessary Fall/Winter 1991
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1991Volume Number: Fall/WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan Peoples Organization
Cover Story: And the Struggle Continues; NAPO Elections. Inside: Message from the Chairman, NAPO Newsbriefs, A Snake is a Snake (Clearance Thomas), Support Our Mandelas (Geronimo Ji Jaga), 500 Years of Native Resistance, Is the Image of Malcolm Being Pimped?, New Orleans Police Murder Black Youth, more.
Champions of the Human Rights Struggle - Fifth Annual Grassroots Tribute - Safiya Bandele, Vergie Muhammad, PhD, Dr Urayoana Trinidad, Yuri Kochiyama Champions of the Human Rights Struggle - Fifth Annual Grassroots Tribute - Safiya Bandele, Vergie Muhammad, PhD, Dr Urayoana Trinidad, Yuri Kochiyama
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationDate: 4/28/1989Call Number: Format: ProgramCollection: New Afrikan Peoples Organization
The New Afrikan People's Organization's (NAPO) Fifth Annual Grassroots Tribute, presenting the Malcolm X Award to four women: Safiya Bandele, Vergie R. Muhammad, Urayoana Trinidad, and Yuri Kochiyama. This program includes a message from NAPO; an essay entitled "The Women Organized are Building to Win," regarding the role of New Afrikan women in the struggle to free all New Afrikans and the land; and essays about each of the awardees: Revolutionary Warrior Woman, Safiya Bandele; Talking About Sister Vergie R Muhammad; My Mother, The Doctor, Vergie R Muhammad; The Healer, Urayoana Trinidad; and The Indefatigable, Yuri Kochiyama
New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day Honoring The Black Liberation Army & Sister Assata Shakur New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day Honoring The Black Liberation Army & Sister Assata Shakur
Author: May 19th Communist OrganizationPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 7/18/1981Call Number: Format: FlyerCollection: New Afrikan Peoples Organization
A May 19th Communist Organization made flyer for the march and rally on Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day on July 18, 1981, honoring The Black Liberation Army and Assata Shakur at the Harlem State Office Building. A call to all anti-imperialists and progressive forces to fight together for self-determination for the New Afrika, to free all prisoners of war, and build the Black Liberation Army.