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The Black New Deal

April 28, 2020 fwstaff
Note: Fighting Words is posting this statement, with accompanying demands, not as our own program, but to recognize a significant response by Black community leaders in Oakland to the serious and devastating impact of COVID19 […]
Detroit International Women's Day participants on March 7, 2020
Domestic News

International Women’s Day Honors Legacy of Harriet Tubman

March 16, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There was a lively celebration of International Women’s Day in Detroit on Saturday, March 7, 2020. The feature film “Harriet” was shown on the life, times and monumental contributions of anti-slavery organizer, […]
Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah leaders of the Tanzanian and Ghanaian Revolutions in Africa
International News

Lectures by Walter Rodney Presents an African Perspective on the Russian Revolution

March 2, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Title: The Russian Revolution: A View From The Third World Author: Dr. Walter Rodney Publisher: Verso Books, 2018 During the late 1960s and the 1970s, the University of Dar es Salaam in […]
Black Panther newspaper in solidarity with DPRK, China and North Vietnam
Domestic News

Five decades ago the Black Panther Party sought to build an alliance of progressive forces throughout the United States

February 29, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe 1969 had been a critical year for the Black Panther Party (BPP) with hundreds of its members indicted and incarcerated on trumped-up charges while numerous activists had been killed as a direct […]
Malcolm X with Muhammad Speaks-AP
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Renewed Examination of the Assassination of Malcolm X 55 Years Later

February 29, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe February 21, 2020 marks the 55th anniversary of the martyrdom of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik Shabazz) who was 39 years old at the time of his untimely death in New York City. […]
Nashville mass demonstration in April 1960 led by Diane Nash and John Lewis
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Mass Student Movement in the United States Began Six Decades Ago

February 23, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On February 1, 1960, four African American students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical University sat down at a racially segregated lunch counter in the F.W. Woolworth dDepartment store in downtown Greensboro […]
Free Mumia rally at Philly DA's office
Domestic News

Press Release: Jan 31 Rally to Free Mumia

February 1, 2020 fwstaff
  Above: Free Mumia rally at Philly DA’s office: Abu-Jamal’s supporters rallied outside DA Krasner’s office on Friday, January 31, even though DA Larry Krasner asked the judge to postpone the date when Krasner has […]
Reclaim MLK march: sound truck, right side
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Thousands March in Oakland to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy

January 31, 2020 fwstaff
By Terri Kay Oakland, CA – Thousands participated as the Anti Police-Terror Project led it’s Sixth Annual March to Reclaim Martin Luther King Jr’s Radical Legacy, starting with a noon rally at Oscar Grant Plaza. […]
Anti Police-Terror Project
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January 20: Anti Police-Terror Project to Lead 6th Annual March and Rally to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy

January 22, 2020 fwstaff
By Anti Police-Terror Project On Monday, January 20, the Anti Police-Terror Project will lead a mass mobilization of people from across the Bay Area starting at Oakland’s Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, for the […]
Detroit Tribute to Fred Hampton and Mark Clark at the AAHM on Dec. 7, 2019.
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Tribute to Fred Hampton and Mark Clark Held at African American History Museum

January 19, 2020 fwstaff
By FW Detroit Staff These photographs were taken on Sat. Dec. 7, 2019 at a tribute to Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. The event was held at the Dr. […]