The Malcolm X Commemoration Committee (MXCC) announced the passing of Iyaluua Ferguson on the morning of February 27.
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The MXCC notes that, “After facing a COINTELPRO-orchestrated conviction in 1969, Herman Ferguson defiantly opted for exile in Guyana the following year. Mama Iyaluua, as she was so affectionately called, sacrificed all of the possibilities of her professional life in New York without hesitancy and joined her husband there in 1972. In their nearly 20 years in Guyana, they both played groundbreaking roles in establishing that new nation’s educational infrastructure.
infiltrations, and shootouts between police forces and Black Nationalists, the summer of 1967 was written up as one of this nation’s most violent. “We knew we had a right to self-defense, but I think that in the back of our minds, many felt there was now a need for self-defense.”
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