Black Liberation

President Ramaphosa honors Jesse Jackson's legacy.
Domestic News

Tribute by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the homecoming celebration of Rev Jesse Jackson

March 23, 2026 fwstaff
By Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa The Family of the late Rev Jesse Jackson, Your Excellencies, Friends, The people of South Africa are with you today as you lay to rest a great man […]
Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cuban President Fidel Castro meet in Havana in June, 1984
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The Jesse Jackson Campaign: National Oppression & Class Conflict

March 23, 2026 fwstaff
Civil Rights leader, two-time presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17, 2026, at the age of 84. In the days following his death, the corporate media […]
Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown at Hamilton Hall Columbia, 1968
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Assata Shakur and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) Symbolized the Transformation of the Black Struggle

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Assata Shakur (formerly known as Joann Chesimard) and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (also known as H. Rap Brown) passed away during 2025 amid the rise of state repression and fascism in the United […]
Domestic News

Rebellion and Revolution: From Haiti to the Louisiana German Coast (1791-1811)

February 20, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A rebellion among the Africans of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in the Caribbean beginning in August 1791 would send shockwaves throughout the slaveholding classes throughout the entire Western Hemisphere. This uprising later evolved into […]
Carter G. Woodson quote
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A Centenary of African American Historical Recognition

February 7, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On this 100th anniversary of the founding of “Negro History Week” in February 1926, the field of African American historical studies continues to be denigrated and marginalized by the administration of United […]
International News

From Distance to Dinstance | Silence between comrades | Deliberate Illiteracy in the White House | Between Next Year and me | From resolutions to Resolution

February 7, 2026 fwstaff
  FROM DISTANCE TO DINSTANCE – three haiku for Gaza when i was a child distance screamed so loud to me i called it dinstance the Gazan children are at such a near dinstance i […]
Ellie Dahmer holds her husband's photo Vernon Dahmer, Sr.
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MLK Day 2026: Lessons from the Past for the Struggles of Today

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15 represents the 97th ancestral birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was martyred on April 4, 1968, while working in solidarity with the African American sanitation workers strike […]
Domestic News

Second edition of the Richard Wright News Bulletin 2025

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Julia Wright “I asked my mother why we did not fight back and the fear that was in her slapped me into silence.” “Black Boy”, chapter two. Dear Richard Wright readers and aficionados, On […]
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Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (1943-2025) Leaves a Decades-long Legacy of Revolutionary Struggle

November 30, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday November 23, 2025, Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin passed away in a prison hospital after serving a quarter century of incarceration for a crime he did not commit. Born Hubert Geroid […]
Domestic News

Assata Shakur (1947-2025), A Revolutionary Life

October 6, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Thursday September 25, 2025, indications began to appear over social media that Assata Shakur, a longtime activist in the Black Liberation Movement, had died while living in exile in the Republic […]