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It was a week ago, on Thursday evening, that my 92-year-old paternal grandmother, Gogo, died suddenly in her home.

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience."-Howard Zinn

"If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine."- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

When I received word of the passing of noted poet and singer Gil Scott-Heron I felt as if I had just heard about the death of a college friend whom I had not seen in many years. Perhaps it was because I actually got to know the work of Gil Scott-Heron while I was in college in the early 1970s.

Geronimo Ji-Jaga, affectionately known as G by friends/family or Geronimo by revolutionaries around globe, died in Arusha, Tanzania last Friday. His death marks yet another loss of a committed social justice activist of an era that is gradually fading from our collective memory.

On 30 June 1960, the great martyr Patrice Lumumba spoke toward cooperating with the very same people who chopped off hands when rubber quotas were not met, who made Africans disrespect Africans in their basic grammar and who reduced his compatriots to sitting at their feet in trolleys.

Dear LGBTQ organization/group/activist,