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Cotton industry and African enslavement
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Antebellum Agriculture and the World Capitalist System

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 2 “It was the Black worker, as founding stone of a new economic system in the nineteenth century and for the modern world, who brought civil […]
African soldiers in the Union Army
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African Americans and the United States Civil War

February 9, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 1 By 1860, the dominant industry within southern agriculture was cotton production which utilized the unpaid labor of Africans on lands which were stolen from the […]
Atlanta demonstration against Cop City
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Georgia Governor Declares State of Emergency amid Protests against Atlanta Cop City

January 29, 2023 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia has enacted a state of emergency in Atlanta in the aftermath of the police killing of an activist protesting the construction of a law-enforcement training center […]
Memphis resident Tyre Nichols killed by Scorpian police unit on Jan. 7, 2023
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Memphis Cops Indicted in Beating Death of Tyre Nichols

January 29, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Five African American Memphis police officers assigned to the notorious special unit known as the Scorpions, have been charged with second-degree murder and other crimes which resulted in the death of 29-year-old […]
Congress forms committee to investigate China’s growing economy and world influence - but not how that nation has dramatically reduced poverty
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Both capitalist parties join forces to attack People’s China

January 29, 2023 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On January 10 Reuters reported that: The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to create a select committee on China, using one of its first votes since Republicans took control […]
Detroit demonstration outside City Hall against water shutoffs
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Detroit Days of Action Against Water Shutoffs

January 22, 2023 fwstaff
Photos: Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire   By Fighting Words Staff During the 20th Annual Detroit MLK Day, a special appeal was made to progressive forces to oppose the lifting of the moratorium on water […]
Detroit MLK Day 2023 march up Woodward
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Detroit 20th Annual MLK Day Calls for United Struggle Against Racism, Poverty and Militarism

January 21, 2023 fwstaff
Photos: Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, January 16, 2023, the federally recognized holiday in honor of the martyred Civil Rights and Antiwar leader, a broad spectrum of organizations, activists […]
MLK at 1963 Detroit march with CL Franklin
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Honoring MLK Six Decades After the Mass Struggles of 1963

January 11, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 16 in the United States, the 94th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be commemorated as a federal holiday. Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been […]
Jackson volunteers distribute bottled water
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Jackson Water Crisis Continues Despite Federal Government Interventions

January 8, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In a city of more than 150,000 people which is the capital of the State of Mississippi, residents of Jackson were facing an all too familiar water crisis over the holiday period […]
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Crypto’s collapse strikes deep into Black community

January 8, 2023 fwstaff
  By Chris Fry Back in July 2014, Slate.com published an article by Black writer Jamelle Bouie titled “The Crisis in Black Home Ownership”, which described the catastrophic impact of the Great Recession on Black […]