Black Liberation

Detroit Tribute to Dr. Carter G. Woodson at the African American Museum on Thurs. Dec. 19, 2019
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Detroit Tribute to Dr. Carter G. Woodson Held at African American History Museum

January 19, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff These photographs were taken on Thurs. Dec. 19, 2019 during a public symposium on the life, times, works and ideas of Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950). The event was held […]
Martin Luther King, Jr. marches with other Civil Rights, Labor and Antiwar leaders in Chicago on March 25, 1967 against the Vietnam War
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MLK Day 2020: Honor the Antiwar Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement

January 17, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Monday, January 20, marks the 91st birthday commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). Since 1986, the federal government has recognized the third Monday in January as a national holiday where […]
Harriet Tubman photograph from the antebellum period in the 19th century
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Harriet Tubman Film Highlights the Leading Role of Africans in Their Own Liberation

December 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Film review Title: Harriet Director: Kasi Lemmons Producers: Gregory Allen Howard, Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg Screenplay: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons Starring: Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman along with Leslie […]
James Baldwin
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James Baldwin Documentary Has Relevance in the United States Today

November 4, 2019 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Note: This article was written on February 21, 2017 Review: I Am Not Your Negro Filmmaker: Raoul Peck Narration: Samuel L. Jackson In the aftermath of World War II the African […]
omas Fernandez Robaina and Gisela Arandia with others in Detroit
International News

Cubans visit Detroit to share information on the African presence

May 10, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Detroit has been a center of interest and support of the Cuban Revolution for many decades where the majority-African-American population has engaged in various projects to enhance interactions between both geopolitical regions. […]
Pam Africa
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Pam Africa visits Detroit to headline public meeting on Mumia Abu-Jamal and the unjustly convicted

April 30, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An historic conference entitled “Freedom for the Unjustly Incarcerated” was held on April 20 in the Midtown District of Detroit where MOVE organizer Pam Africa and the Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton […]
International News

Recent unrest reveals continuing revolutionary spirit in Haiti

March 28, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of February, hundreds of thousands of Haitians took to the streets to demonstrate in response to the horrific economic crisis sweeping the Caribbean nation. For 10 straight days, workplaces, […]
protesters for kaepernick
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Karl Marx and the case for reparations

March 21, 2019 fwstaff
By Chris Fry “Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the […]
Wright Museum Protest 03-12-2019
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Jefferson exhibit generates racial controversy in Detroit

March 13, 2019 fwstaff
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 […]
Five officers of the Women’s League, Newport, RI
Domestic News

Women’s Suffrage and African Emancipation During the 19th Century

February 25, 2019 fwstaff
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 […]