Month: February 2026

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Domestic News

A Centenary of African American Historical Recognition

February 7, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On this 100th anniversary of the founding of “Negro History Week” in February 1926, the field of African American historical studies continues to be denigrated and marginalized by the administration of United […]
International News

From Distance to Dinstance | Silence between comrades | Deliberate Illiteracy in the White House | Between Next Year and me | From resolutions to Resolution

February 7, 2026 fwstaff
  FROM DISTANCE TO DINSTANCE – three haiku for Gaza when i was a child distance screamed so loud to me i called it dinstance the Gazan children are at such a near dinstance i […]
Domestic News

The Grapes of Wrath are Filling

February 7, 2026 fwstaff
  By Adam Barrett Since we are upon the one-year anniversary [of the freezing death of two young children – ed.], and since we now finally have a new mayor in Detroit who claims to […]
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International News

Gas, Gas, Gas | Between Gaza and us | Now that the Twilight of Evil is fading to black | Word stone by Word stone, building a new language | Four Kwanzaa haiku

February 7, 2026 fwstaff
  Gas, Gas, Gas – a poem for Gaza Money, money, money ..” -The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht   in between their golden sheets and their fossil fuel-heated real fur blankets the inbred genocide-mongers dream […]
Protests focus on Donald Trump, but the underlying problem is monopoly capitalism
Domestic News

Trump is a symptom – the disease is monopoly capitalism

February 4, 2026 fwstaff
By David Sole The endless outrages of Donald Trump and his henchmen lead some people to believe that our struggle begins and ends with the criminal in the White House. No doubt, the numerous protests […]
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MLK Day 2026: Lessons from the Past for the Struggles of Today

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15 represents the 97th ancestral birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was martyred on April 4, 1968, while working in solidarity with the African American sanitation workers strike […]
Domestic News

Second edition of the Richard Wright News Bulletin 2025

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Julia Wright “I asked my mother why we did not fight back and the fear that was in her slapped me into silence.” “Black Boy”, chapter two. Dear Richard Wright readers and aficionados, On […]
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Historic 103-mile march demands freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Lallan Schoenstein Frackville, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9 — Mumia says it’s about love. What else could have given 17 people the passion to hike 103 miles for 12 days across Pennsylvania, from Philadelphia to the […]
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Double amputee beaten, tortured and terrorized for over a decade in Virginia prisons

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson The inhumanity of Virginia’s prisons knows no limits. The experiences of Neil Lyness aka Turbo proves the case. Neil is a double-amputee who lost his left arm and left leg in […]
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson currently being brutalized in S. Carolina’s Perry Correctional facility
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My retaliation and abuse continue in South Carolina prisons under interstate compact

February 2, 2026 fwstaff
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Since I was interstate transferred to South Carolina from the Virginia prison system on May 1, 2025, I have endured continued abuses and retaliation in response to and to deter my […]