Black Liberation

Jonathan Jackson and his comrades on Aug. 7, 1970 in Marin County, California
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Black August and the Legacy of Liberation Struggles

August 9, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since 1979 when prisoners at the San Quentin Correctional Facility in California declared the month of August as a period of commemoration honoring political detainees along with those who have sacrificed their […]
Cambridge Movement leader Gloria Richardson pushes away National Guard bayonet in 1964
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SNCC Veterans Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses Made Monumental Contributions to Civil Rights

July 29, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of July, two heroic figures in the struggle against Jim Crow and race terror, Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses passed away. Their lives intersected with the upsurge in […]
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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 […]
Detroit May Day 2021 march with Moratorium NOW! Coalition, Detroit Will Breathe, among others
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Detroit Police Chief Departs

May 18, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the summer of 2020 there have been consistent calls for the resignation of Detroit police chief James Craig. Craig announced on May 10 that he was retiring from the Detroit Police […]
An entire neighborhood destroyed when police dropped a bomb on the MOVE house in Philadelphia, 1985
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Malcolm X Commemoration Committee Press Statement Condemns ‘Theft’ of Remains of MOVE Children!

May 4, 2021 fwstaff
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 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, […]
Elizabeth Jennings Graham
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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 […]
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg as a young man
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Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Played an Integral Role in Founding African Studies

February 24, 2021 fwstaff
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 […]
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - The Red Record
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1898 to 2021: From Wilmington to Washington and the Role of Racism in Right-wing Coups

February 16, 2021 fwstaff
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. […]