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Scottsboro case demonstration in Washington, D.C. during 1933

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Sharecroppers Union to the New Farmers of America

February 22, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 6 Several years prior to the formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, a series of events in the state of Alabama would […]

Southern Tenant Farmers Union meeting in Arkansas

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Great Depression to World War II

February 21, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 5 During October 1929, the United States economic system was plunged into an unprecedented depression where tens of millions were thrown out of work and their […]

African American Farmers Alliance of the late 19th century

African American Resistance in the Rural South

February 20, 2023 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe African American History Month Series No. 4 “The new industry had a vision not of work but of wealth, not of planned accomplishment, but of power. It became the most conscienceless, unmoral […]

Feature Film Portrays the Important Role of Mamie Till-Mobley in Igniting the Mass Civil Rights Movement

November 3, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Film: Till Director: Chinonye Chukwu Producers: Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly, Frederick Zollo Writers: Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp Star Actors: Danielle Deadwyler (Mamie Till-Bradley), Jalyn […]

Aretha Franklin and former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

Aretha Franklin and the Counterintelligence Program

October 2, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe On August 16, 2018, Aretha Franklin, popularly known as the “Queen of Soul”, passed away at her home in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 76. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on March […]

The Great Revolutionary Saladin Muhammad Joins the Ancestors

September 27, 2022 fwstaff

By The Executive Committee, Black Workers for Justice And thank you for your patience and support today. It is with great sadness and profound loss that we announce the passing of our exemplary revolutionary warrior […]

Nehanda Abiodun and the Legacy of Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex – Black August Series #4

August 28, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the early 1980s, the prison population in the United States has grown exponentially with African Americans, Latin Americans and other working class people making up the majority of those incarcerated in […]

Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Struggles and the Cuban Revolution – Black August Series #3

August 18, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe As far back in history as the period of enslavement of African people in North America, resistance and rebellion has been met with retaliatory repression from the ruling interests. Freedom fighters such […]

Mumia Abu-Jamal as a youth member of the Black Panther Party in Philadelphia

Mumia Abu-Jamal Remains the Voice of the Voiceless – Black August Series #2

August 18, 2022 fwstaff

By Abayomi Azikiwe During the late 1960s, Mumia Abu-Jamal became a youth activist in the city of Philadelphia where a succession of racist police chiefs engaged in widespread abuse against the African American community. Philadelphia […]

Moranda Smith: An African American Revolutionary Trade Union Leader (1915-1950)

August 15, 2022 fwstaff

By Gerry Scoppettuolo On a hot dusty day in September 1949, 34-year-old Moranda Smith strode bravely down the main street of Apopka, Florida. The Klan was after her and she knew it. The night before, […]

Fighting Words

Journal of the Communist Workers league

African American Resistance in the Rural South from the Sharecroppers Union to the New Farmers of America

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Feature Film Portrays the Important Role of Mamie Till-Mobley in Igniting the Mass Civil Rights Movement

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Aretha Franklin and the Counterintelligence Program

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The Great Revolutionary Saladin Muhammad Joins the Ancestors

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