Don Rojas

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Don Rojas

Don Rojas (born 1949) is a journalist and political commentator from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines who is considered a lifelong activist and visionary freedom fighter. As a young person, he moved to the US to attend university, and one of his first positions was assistant director of communications for the National Urban League. Following his stint there, Rojas became an assistant editor at a Black-owned paper in Baltimore where he conducted interviews with leaders from around Africa, including Civil Rights icon Nelson Mandela and singer Bob Marley. He later returned to the Caribbean and become the Editor in Chief of Grenada's national newspaper The Free West Indian, serving as press secretary for Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada. When U.S. Marines invaded Grenada in 1983, he was deported by the U.S. military to Barbados. Rojas subsequently worked in the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) and returned to the United States in the early 1990s. Rojas's work over the decades includes serving as: Editor of the New York Amsterdam News, General Manager of WBAI Pacifica Network, Executive Director of Free Speech TV, Senior Advisor to the President of the University of the West Indies, Director of Communications and International Relations for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, Director of Communications for the National Office of the NAACP, and Founder of the award-winning digital magazine, The Black World Today, when the internet was in its infancy stages. Rojas views his work as part and parcel of a broader social and economic justice movement.

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