African American History

Black Boy by Richard Wright
International News

Grave-lorn – a poem for Richard Wright’s 117 birthday | The capacity for joy – a Gaza poem | Gaza’s arks | Who are the blind ones?

September 21, 2025 fwstaff
GRAVE-LORN – A POEM FOR RICHARD WRIGHT’S 117 BIRTHDAY Greetings Folks, September 4th was the 117th birthday of my father. I wrote the poem below for him. This year is also the 80th year of […]
Nat Turner Park amphitheater, Newark, NJ
Domestic News

Rights Group Criticizes Trump’s Efforts to Erase History

August 28, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress The 16th annual commemoration of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion will be held today, Thursday, August 21, 2025, 5:00 pm at Nat Turner Park, 171 Muhammad Ali Avenue in Newark, […]
Mumia Abu-Jamal while he was on death row for over two decades in Pennsylvania
Domestic News

Black August and the Epic Struggle to Free Mumia Abu Jamal!

August 19, 2025 fwstaff
By bro Zayid Muhammad Long live the revolutionary spirits of George and Jonathan Jackson, the courageous revolutionary cornerstones of this hot time we call Black August…a time marking some of our ugliest oppression and repression, a time […]
Don Freeman (1939-2025) speaking in Cleveland, July 30, 2011
Domestic News

Don Freeman, 1939-2025, Veteran Cleveland-based Activist Leaves Profound Political Legacy

August 7, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the 1960s, the city of Cleveland, Ohio was at the center of several political trends emerging within the African American community nationwide. Its burgeoning African American working-class population, many of whom […]
National Guard troops occupied Newark, NJ in the summer of 1967 to put down a mass rebellion against racism and poverty
Domestic News

1967 Newark rebellion commemoration set for July 12th: can it happen again?

July 15, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for  Progress (POP) The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) will have a 1967 Newark Rebellion Commemoration March And Rally on the 58th anniversary of the uprising, Saturday, July 12, 2025, 12:00 noon […]
Plaque commemorating General Sherman’s Field Order 15 for reparations in 1865
Domestic News

On Juneteenth activist group demands passage of reparations legislation

July 1, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress (POP) PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 973 801-0001 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE Today, on the Juneteenth holiday to celebrate the […]
RIP Dr. Jerry Ward
International News

ON THE MAP OF OUR HEARTS | JERRY WARD | THE MADLEEN- THE TIP OF AN ICEBERG OF FLOTILLAS | GAZA’S SEASONS | AN ABSENCE OF DEER

June 30, 2025 fwstaff
“It is the 80th anniversary of the publication of “Black Boy”. To honor its author whose ashes were interred in 1960 in the French cemetery of Pere Lachaise, Paris, a Wright aficionado who is also […]
Rene Lichtman memorial photo with Ismail Noor
International News

Rene Lichtman (1937-2025), Artist, Film Director and Human Rights Activist, Memorialized in Detroit

June 18, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Dr. Rene Lichtman, 87, took his last breath on January 28, 2025, yet his legacy remains very much alive in Detroit and across the United States. Born in Paris, France in 1937, […]
African American soldiers in 1865
Domestic News

Activist Group Will Honor Black Civil War Soldiers

June 1, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE ACTIVIST GROUP WILL HONOR BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS AT AFRICAN CEMETERY IN PENNINGTON Members of the People’s Organization For Progress will journey to Mercer County to […]
Oberlin and Wellington freedom fighters
Domestic News

“The message for ICE is to get out of our city!”

May 15, 2025 fwstaff
By Chris Fry May 8, Worcester, MA – Ferreria de Oliveira, a migrant from Brazil, screamed for help. Her two daughters, one of whom was carrying her own newborn baby, tried to reach their mother. […]