#sitin

Fifty-seven years ago yesterday, African American college students Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond sat down at Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, NC as a deliberate action to challenge the policy of segregation and thus began the Greensboro sit-in. Other students and members of the community later joined them in peaceful resistance, enduring heckling and for some in April, temporary arrest. The Greensboro sit-in sparked others around the country. Almost six long months later, on July 26, Woolworth’s desegregated.

Les travailleurs municipaux de la mairie de Ziguinchor ont tenu, ce mercredi 24 septembre, un sit-in pour exiger le paiement effectif de leurs nouvelles rémunérations. Ces augmentations sont prévues par l’accord signé le 10 juillet 2025, qui aligne les salaires des agents municipaux sur ceux de la fonction publique d’État. Joint au téléphone par le correspondant de PressAfrik, Habib Ngoundiam,…

Activists and supporters of the Palestinian cause demonstrated outside the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat on Friday, to denounce the recent violent Israeli intervention in Jenin. Participants raised slogans of condemnation, mixed with solidarity calling to “cancel the agreements of shame and disgrace of normalizing with the Zionist entity.” A large banner was raised saying: “Moroccan in Support…