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Racist Thought Police Attack “Critical Race Theory”

June 28, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An exchange between the United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, and several Republican Congressmen in Washington, D.C. on June 23, illustrates the level of hysteria prevalent […]
Racial Profiling Across 8 Mile Rally & March, June 5, 2021
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Stop Racial Profiling Across 8 Mile

June 16, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A second annual rally and march to highlight the problem of racial profiling of Black and Brown motorists, cyclists and pedestrians by police was held in Detroit along the 8 Mile […]
Black Syndicate Motorcycle Club lead the demeonstration along Washtenaw Ave on April 17, 2021 WDIV
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Protest Honoring George Floyd (9:29) held in Ann Arbor, MI

May 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff A protest against police killings and brutality against African Americans was held in Ann Arbor, MI on April 17. More than 100 protestors from Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti were joined by […]
Detroit rally at Clark Park art work, April 17, 2021
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Stop Racist Police Killings!: Rally-Speakout at Detroit’s Clark Park

May 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff In response to another wave of police attacks and killings of African American and Latin American people in the United States, activists are taking to the streets to denounce racist […]
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Rally in Manitowoc, WI Honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 26, 2021 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered while supporting sanitation workers in Memphis, TN,  April 4, 1968. MLK Day Manitowoc, an organization that organizes events on the MLK Day in rural […]
Mumia Abu-Jamal while he was on death row for over two decades in Pennsylvania
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Urgent – Mumia Abu-Jamal to Undergo Heart Surgery

April 15, 2021 fwstaff
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the world renowned veteran Black Panther, political prisoner and radio journalist, had heart pain over the weekend. He was rushed to the hospital, and is expected to undergo heart surgery tomorrow, April 15, […]
Demonstration against anti-Asian attacks through downtown Detroit on March 27, 2021
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Stop Anti-Asian Hate and Violence!

April 3, 2021 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff There was another rally and march in downtown Detroit on Sat. March 27, 2021. The event was in response to the escalation of racist violence directed towards Asian people inside […]
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Despite Official Denials Racist Violence Against Asians Continue in the United States

March 27, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe March is International Women’s History Month and the threats towards oppressed and racially marginalized people in the United States are intensifying. An attack by a 21-year-old white male against three Asian-owned spas […]
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Black Women and the Fight for Access to Public Transportation

March 15, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Many people in the United States are aware of the struggle for Civil Rights led by African Americans during the post-World War II period from the late 1940s right through the early […]
Mass mobilizations along with legal action can stop the fascists.
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Lawsuits filed against Trump and neo-Klan groups using Reconstruction’s anti-Klan Law

March 7, 2021 fwstaff
By Chris Fry On November 20, 2020, the Detroit NAACP filed a lawsuit in Washington District Court on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization against the Michigan Trump Campaign. Utilizing the 1871 Ku Klux […]