By Zayid Muhammad, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee When Bombing A Black Family, Killing Defenseless Men Women and Children and Destroying an Entire Neighborhood is not enough!… Their names were Delisha Africa and Tree Africa. They […]
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, […]
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 […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Born in 1874 in Puerto Rico, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg entered a whirlwind of anti-colonial struggles which were inextricably linked to the abolition of African enslavement. Legalized slavery in Puerto Rico and Cuba […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe At the time of this writing (Feb. 1q0, 2021 – editor) the Senate impeachment trial was well underway where evidence was being presented aimed at convicting former United States President Donald J. […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe During World War I (1914-1918) and the immediately following years (1919-1921), racial tensions escalated inside the United States resulting in numerous efforts by white racists to contain and in many cases remove […]
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Longtime African American revolutionary and cultural worker, Darnell Summers, is once again being threatened with prosecution in the death of a Michigan State Police Red Squad officer in Inkster, Michigan, […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe During late August, the Central African state of Burundi appealed to the Belgian and German governments to pay reparations for the crimes committed during their colonial occupation of this country during the […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the May 25 police execution of George Floyd in Minneapolis, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest racist violence. Cities across the United States were impacted […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Two luminaries in the African American struggle which emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis, passed away on July 17. Both figures played a prominent role […]
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