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59TH anniversary of the 1967 Newark Rebellion to be commemorated

July 15, 2026 fwstaff
1967 Newark Rebellion By People’s Organization for Progress The anniversary of a major uprising of the 1960s will be observed this weekend by a grassroots civil and human rights advocacy group. A march and rally […]
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Police Killing of One Year Old Protested

July 10, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress The People’s Organization For Progress will hold a press conference to discuss the fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley and other victims of police brutality. It will take place […]
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Justice for Alonzo Lee-Perkins – Shot in the back by Detroit Police

July 4, 2026 fwstaff
By BYP100 Justice for Alonzo: A Family’s Demand for Truth, Transparency, and Accountability For Immediate Release Detroit, MI – On the evening of June 22, 2026, during the Ford Fireworks celebration, 18-year-old Alonzo Lee-Perkins – […]
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Detroit People’s Tribunal Takes Mask off ICE

July 4, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Saturday, June 27, the Detroit People’s Tribunal was convened at the Historic St. Matthew’s & St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in the North End of Detroit. This event had been in the […]
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People’s Organization For Progress will host community reading of Frederick Douglass’ speech “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”

July 3, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress As the nation begins to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence, a grassroots civil rights organization will have a public reading of a speech by a nineteenth century slavery abolitionist […]
DSA backed candidates sweep New York primaries
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Recent primary elections show rising favor for socialism

July 3, 2026 fwstaff
By David Sole In the United States, dominated by corporate and banking billionaires – a system called monopoly capitalism, voting in elections cannot produce decisive or long-lasting change for poor and working people. But elections […]
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On the dedication of Black boy | For the time that does not escape me | My words are my army | The hidden boxes syndrome in our history

July 3, 2026 fwstaff
ON THE DEDICATION OF BLACK BOY – a poem dedicated to my father, Richard Wright when you dedicated Black Boy to my mother and me writing for Ellen and Julia who live always in my […]
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UAW Divests from Israel Bonds

July 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Navruz Baum, UAW Local 2325 After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of […]
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National Urban League Says African Americans Are in Recession

June 22, 2026 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe A recently released report by the National Urban League (NUL) illustrates that African Americans are in a deep recession attributed to government policies under the administration of President Donald Trump. It […]
Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress
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POP holds rally in Newark against Trump dictatorship

June 22, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization For Progress (POP) A counter protest was held last weekend to President Trump’s Washington DC celebration of his 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. The protest entitled “End […]