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Denby High football players with Coach deon Godfrey at 2020 Detroit MLK Day Rally
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Detroit’s Denby High football players take a knee for social justice

February 27, 2020 fwstaff
By Mike Shane Detroit’s Denby High School football team received the People’s Spirit of Detroit Award for taking a knee during the national anthem prior to a semi-final game and then standing strong in the […]
Nashville mass demonstration in April 1960 led by Diane Nash and John Lewis
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Mass Student Movement in the United States Began Six Decades Ago

February 23, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On February 1, 1960, four African American students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University sat down at a racially segregated lunch counter in the F.W. Woolworth dDepartment store in downtown Greensboro […]
Detroit MLK Day March in the North End on Mon. Jan. 20, 2020
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Detroit’s Annual Commemoration of MLK

February 11, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A broad range of organizations united in Detroit on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to extend the struggle into the third decade of the 21st century. On Monday January 20, the 17th […]
Free Mumia rally at Philly DA's office
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Press Release: Jan 31 Rally to Free Mumia

February 1, 2020 fwstaff
  Above: Free Mumia rally at Philly DA’s office: Abu-Jamal’s supporters rallied outside DA Krasner’s office on Friday, January 31, even though DA Larry Krasner asked the judge to postpone the date when Krasner has […]
Reclaim MLK march: sound truck, right side
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Thousands March in Oakland to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy

January 31, 2020 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Oakland, CA – Thousands participated as the Anti Police-Terror Project led it’s Sixth Annual March to Reclaim Martin Luther King Jr’s Radical Legacy, starting with a noon rally at Oscar Grant Plaza. […]
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Homeless moms evicted by riot police with AR-15’s and military tanks

January 26, 2020 fwstaff
By David Sole Breaking News: As we were about to post this article, a major victory was announced on the morning of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, January 20th. Wedgewood Properties, under tremendous national pressure, […]
Anti Police-Terror Project
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January 20: Anti Police-Terror Project to Lead 6th Annual March and Rally to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy

January 22, 2020 fwstaff
By Anti Police-Terror Project On Monday, January 20, the Anti Police-Terror Project will lead a mass mobilization of people from across the Bay Area starting at Oakland’s Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, for the […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. marches with other Civil Rights, Labor and Antiwar leaders in Chicago on March 25, 1967 against the Vietnam War
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MLK Day 2020: Honor the Antiwar Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

January 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Monday, January 20, marks the 91st birthday commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). Since 1986, the federal government has recognized the third Monday in January as a national holiday where […]
Migrant families caged in a makeshift detention center
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Groups tell Congress – Impeach Trump for hate crimes

December 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Fighting Words staff The following letter was sent to the Democratic Party leadership in the House of Representatives urging that an article of impeachment be drawn up against President Trump for hate crimes against […]
Cassie with ICE Kills sign at SF ICE Dentention Center Close the Camps rally
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Cassandra Devereaux for California State Assembly, District 14

December 3, 2019 fwstaff
By  Cassandra Devereaux My name is Cassandra Devereaux and I would like to announce my candidacy for the office of California State Assembly for District 14 under the Peace and Freedom Party ticket. I am […]