Black Liberation

Viola Plummer - February 17, 1937 - January 15, 2024
Domestic News

MXCC Remembers Fallen Freedom Fighter Viola Plummer

January 27, 2024 fwstaff
  By Malcolm X Commemoration Committee   “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people,  and then penalize them for not being able to stand under its weight…” […]
Detroit MLK Day 2024 audience in sanctuary and balcony
Domestic News

Detroit’s 21st Annual MLK Day Rally Focused on Labor, Community and Palestinian Struggles

January 24, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Shawn Fain, President of the UAW International, noted during his major policy address at the 21st Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally that the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights remains […]
St. Augustine movement leaders King, Hayling and Abernathy during 1964
Domestic News

Dr. King Linked the Struggles to End Racism, Poverty and War

January 13, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe January 15, 2024 marks the 95th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), a federally recognized holiday in the United States since 1986. Dr. King was the most well-known and respected […]
The late Ralph Poynter
Domestic News

PEACE TO PIECES | RALPH POYNTER – OUR ANCESTRAL KING | CARCERAL NUTRIENTS

January 13, 2024 fwstaff
PEACE TO PIECES in police-staffed schools now called “soft targets” because mass shootings take place there our children are taught to stick to their guns and in their textbooks they learn that the Nobel Peace […]
Palestinian youth throws stones at Israeli troops
International News

THEIR HOLLOW HOUSE | AND SO, YES, THEY CAN THROW STONES | BLACKFACE LADY MACBETH |

December 30, 2023 fwstaff
  Please send your favorite Palestine related poem to bbttyd@gmail.com and cc freemumia@lists.people-link.net     THEIR HOLLOW HOUSE For Ralph Poynter “ Love is contraband in Hell Cause love is an acid That eats away […]
I STAND WITH PALESTINE
International News

I STAND WITH PALESTINE

November 14, 2023 fwstaff
By Sammie Lewis As a 27 year old, I have had to consider the various ways I may die. Will it be because of an unsurvivable climate? Will it be because of a mass shooting? […]
International News

Can You Hear Their Laughter? | Shells Against Shells

October 28, 2023 fwstaff
Can You Hear Their Laughter? For Emmett Till, Wadea Al-Fayoume and Ruchell Cinque Magee can you hear their laughter ? Wadea and Emmett have met and they are as thick as angels and they are […]
International News

From Niger to Haiti to Cop City, Defeat the War Against African People

September 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Black Alliance for Peace In the desperate bid for the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination to hold onto the unipolar world, the war on Africans globally intensifies. This reactionary legacy of Western colonialism is proving […]
John Lewis in Selma on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965
Domestic News

Redistricting Case in Alabama Could Further Erode Voting Rights for African Americans

September 26, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A series of politically motivated legal efforts by the Republican-dominated state legislature in Alabama are designed to maintain limited electoral power for African Americans. State authorities have been ordered to redraw a […]
Big battle shaping up as Trump and his criminal gang face numerous charges in Atlanta
Editorials

Fulton County Georgia indictments: Atlanta Black community strikes back

August 27, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff On August 5, the world was thrilled to see members of the Black community exercise their “Black Panther Party right of self-defense” on a dock in Montgomery, Alabama. When a group […]