Sundiata Acoli has been locked up for 48 years. At 84 years old, and after contracting COVID-19 in prison, Acoli’s health is suffering—and a coalition of friends, family, and faith leaders are calling ...

Ibrahim Sundiata has done well for someone who, by his own admission, made a mistake when he chose the site for his dissertation fieldwork. “Equatorial Guinea was an obscure and sanguinary place,” the ...

Sekou Sundiata, a poet who connected the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s with spoken-word artists of today, died July 18 from heart failure at Westchester Medical Center in New York, said April ...

In 1973, Sundiata Acoli, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, was arrested and later sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster.

Sekou Sundiata, a poet who connected the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s with spoken-word artists of today, died July 18 from heart failure at a New York hospital, said April Silver, a family ...

NEW JERSEY-- New Jersey's Supreme Court granted parole Tuesday to a former member of the Black Liberation Army who was convicted in the infamous 1973 murder of a state trooper. In 1973, Sundiata Acoli ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Sundiata Acoli, a Black man and a political prisoner, is a free man after ...

Sundiata, the legendary 13th century Lion King of Mali and one of the inspirations of Disney’s “The Lion King,” preserved the pride of his people through his heroic rescue of the griot, the tribes’ ...

The bridge that connects the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s with spoken word artists of today was crafted by poets like Sekou Sundiata. In the 1960s Sundiata was a young boy living in Harlem, coming ...