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Biden met by protestors in Michigan

February 19, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On February 1, 2023, demonstrators opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza protested outside of the offices of UAW Region 1 in Warren, Michigan. Inside the Region 1 headquarters, President Biden was […]
Pan-African Conference 1900 in London
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Emancipation, the Nadir and Pan-African Awakenings – African American History Series #3

February 10, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “The unfriendly whites first drove the native American from his much-loved home. Then they stole our fathers from their peaceful and quiet dwellings, and brought them hither, and made bondmen and bondwomen […]
African slave revolt 1811
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African Emigration and the United States Civil War – African American History Month Series #2

February 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After the United States Congress outlawed participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808, the kidnapping and importation of Africans into North America continued. From the geographical regions on the continent where […]
CLR James with Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney
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Impact of the Haitian Revolution on Resistance History – African American History Month Series #1

February 4, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe This year represents the 98th anniversary of the launching of “Negro History Week” in 1926, later named Black History Month in 1976, after the federal government issued a proclamation in recognition of […]
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Stop Nazis in Wisconsin

February 4, 2024 fwstaff
By People’s Unity Coalition The Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement and allies are mobilizing numerous individuals and organizations across Wisconsin to respond to a growing threat by Nazis and other fascists across that state […]
Part of the threat of fascism is the ultra-right Project 2025
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Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee Launched

January 27, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff The new year was marked by the formation of a new Anti-Fascist Organizing Committee that seeks to begin discussions among unions and community organizations on how to fight back against the […]
Viola Plummer - February 17, 1937 - January 15, 2024
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MXCC Remembers Fallen Freedom Fighter Viola Plummer

January 27, 2024 fwstaff
  By Malcolm X Commemoration Committee   “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people,  and then penalize them for not being able to stand under its weight…” […]
Detroit MLK Day 2024 audience in sanctuary and balcony
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Detroit’s 21st Annual MLK Day Rally Focused on Labor, Community and Palestinian Struggles

January 24, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Shawn Fain, President of the UAW International, noted during his major policy address at the 21st Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally that the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights remains […]
Congressman Thaddeus Stevens helped draft the 14th Amendment
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Proposed campaign to disqualify Trump, force Biden to step down while forcing Israel into a cease fire

January 23, 2024 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On December 19 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump was disqualified from that state’s 2024 ballot because he engaged in the January 6, 2021, insurrection, which, according to Section 3 […]
St. Augustine movement leaders King, Hayling and Abernathy during 1964
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Dr. King Linked the Struggles to End Racism, Poverty and War

January 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15, 2024 marks the 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), a federally recognized holiday in the United States since 1986. Dr. King was the most well-known and respected […]