Year: 2021

Hazel Park press conference youth come out in support of Armani
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Drop the Charges Against Armani!

May 4, 2021 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff There was a press conference held at the Hazel Park City Hall, a suburb right across the border from Detroit, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, which demanded that the false […]
The Kill Shot (from DPD video)
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Didn’t the police have the option to arrest rather than execute Hakim Littleton?

May 4, 2021 fwstaff
By Coalition for Police Transparency and Accountability On April 7, 2021, the Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced the results of her investigation into the murder of Hakim Littleton. This decision serves only to raise […]
Elizabeth City African American Andrew Brown, Jr.
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Police Reforms Prove Inadequate to End Misconduct and Brutality

May 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As demonstrations erupt across the United States against the oppression inflicted on the African American people, the first three months of the presidency of Joe Biden and his administration has been marked […]
Black Syndicate Motorcycle Club lead the demeonstration along Washtenaw Ave on April 17, 2021 WDIV
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Protest Honoring George Floyd (9:29) held in Ann Arbor, MI

May 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A protest against police killings and brutality against African Americans was held in Ann Arbor, MI on April 17. More than 100 protestors from Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti were joined by […]
Detroit rally at Clark Park art work, April 17, 2021
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Stop Racist Police Killings!: Rally-Speakout at Detroit’s Clark Park

May 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff In response to another wave of police attacks and killings of African American and Latin American people in the United States, activists are taking to the streets to denounce racist […]
An Amazon-sponsored billboard in Bessemer, Ala.
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Voter Suppression and the Amazon “NO” Vote

April 29, 2021 fwstaff
By David Sole The eyes of millions of workers and all the big bankers and bosses were fixed on Bessemer, Alabama over the past several months. Around 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers had been organizing to […]
Children in ICE cages.
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A Scream to the Heavens

April 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Elena Herrada Good afternoon I don’t normally express raw emotion to strangers like this, but the situation calls for a scream to the heavens. I cried myself to sleep last night, I am sure […]
No Picture
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Guilty on All Charges: Chauvin, Cops and the Racist System

April 28, 2021 fwstaff
By  Abayomi Azikiwe Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on three counts of murder in the brutal death of 47-year-old African American George Floyd. The jury impaneled in the historic case only […]
African Union Conference on COVID-19 vaccination production held on April 12-13, 2021
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Vaccinations and the COVID-19 Surges from Africa to the United States

April 26, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe As the world experiences another spike in COVID-19 infections, the African continental 55-member states regional organization has held a conference on the necessity of establishing vaccination manufacturing centers. The African Union (AU) […]
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Rally in Manitowoc, WI Honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 26, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered while supporting sanitation workers in Memphis, TN,  April 4, 1968. MLK Day Manitowoc, an organization that organizes events on the MLK Day in rural […]