By Abayomi Azikywe An historical exhibit designed to examine various aspects of the life and people of the Monticello plantation in Virginia during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which was owned by Thomas […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the mid-19th century there has been a periodic interrelationship between the movements for African emancipation and women’s liberation. Of course, these convergences have not been without serious contradictions, particularly in light […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe If the so-called American Revolution of 1776 was truly committed to breaking with monarchical and autocratic rule from the United Kingdom, then why did slavery grow at a rapid rate after the […]
By Abayomi Azikywe In late August of 1619, approximately 20 Africans were brought to the shore of Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, then a colony of Britain, after having been captured by Portuguese colonizers in the […]
By Fighting Words Staff – Chicago On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, over 150 activists gathered in 10-degree weather to march in protest and to reflect on years of the struggle to secure some justice […]
By Terri Kay Despite a total corporate media whiteout, 3,000 people turned out in Oakland, California, to participate in the Anti Police-Terror Project’s (APTP) fifth annual People’s March to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy. This year’s […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, and grew into maturity in the Deep South city of Atlanta, Georgia, during the Great Depression of the 1930s and early […]
By Abayomi Azikiwe Results from the Mississippi Senatorial runoff elections where Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith defeated Democratic candidate Mike Espy by an 11 percent margin illustrates the formidable obstacles placed before the opposition party within the […]
‘Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers stood for socialism, for social justice, against racism, imperialism and war, from the streets of Oakland to the refugee camps of Lebanon. Huey Newton said, “We support the […]
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