African American History

Detroit Palestine solidarity march mobilized thousands on Oct. 28, 2024

Pan-Africanism and Palestine Solidarity, Then and Now (Part II): African American History Month Series #10

March 5, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Al-Aqsa Storm began on October 7, 2023, the corporate and government-controlled media in the United States and European countries utilized their resources to justify the Israeli genocidal assaults on the […]

Edward Wilmot Blyden on Africa and Palestine

Pan-Africanism and Palestine Solidarity, Then and Now (Part I): African American History Month Series #10

March 5, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe 19th century theorist and educator Edward Wilmont Blyden (1832-1912) viewed the struggle for African redemption as being comparable to the Zionist movement, then in its infancy. As the founders of the World […]

Paul Robeson hands over We Charge Genocide petition to the UN in 1951

Before and Beyond Vietnam: African American History Month Series #9

March 4, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Even though the United States government, in its propaganda during World War II, suggested that there would be greater freedoms for African Americans in the wake of the defeat of European fascism […]

Black Panther Party members for Pentagon pilots

African American Liberation and the Vietnamese Revolution: African American History Month Series #8

March 4, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe “Up in French Indochina, those little peasants, rice-growers, took on the might of the French army and ran all the Frenchmen, you remember Dien Bien Phu! The same thing happened in Algeria, […]

Malcolm X and Shirley Graham Du Bois in Ghana during 1964

African Americans and the Cold War from Civil Rights to Black Power: African American History Month Series #7

February 23, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe When the Red Army seized control of Berlin in early May 1945 hoisting the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building within the besieged city, jubilations erupted across Europe and around the world. […]

Cultural Renaissance, Economic Crises and the Struggle Against Fascism, 1919-1945: African American History Month Series #6

February 23, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe In the aftermath of the First Imperialist War [World War I], African Americans and people of African descent around the world escalated their movements to end colonial domination, legalized segregation and the […]

Pan-African Struggles Against Colonialism and the First Imperialist War: 1876-1919 – African American History Month Series #5

February 20, 2024 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in 1876, the monarchy in Belgium initiated a massive campaign to fully conquer the Congo where tremendous wealth existed in natural resources and labor power. King Leopold I pursued the riches […]

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Revels Cayton – Unsung African American Hero of Labor History – African American History Month Series #4

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Emancipation, the Nadir and Pan-African Awakenings – African American History Series #3

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African Emigration and the United States Civil War – African American History Month Series #2

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