Civil Rights Movement

Selma march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge says Black Voters Matter
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Thousands Gather in Alabama to Renew Struggle for Voting Rights

May 24, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe After the devastating impact of the United States Supreme Court Louisiana v. Callais decision which eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, several southern states immediately began to redistrict their Congressional maps […]
Tennessee protest over redistricting vote in Nashville
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Southern States Move Toward Massive Disenfranchisement of African Americans

May 24, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On May 7, just hours after the Republican-dominated Tennessee State Assembly passed legislation which split Memphis into three separate congressional districts, the city which has a large majority of African Americans could […]
Lawrence Hamm at the Lorraine Motel
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Hamm Journeys to MLK’s Assassination Site

April 19, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress People’s Organization For Progress chairman Lawrence Hamm visited the site where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on the anniversary of his assassination. Hamm flew to Memphis, Tennessee […]
Viola Luizzo poster at Detroit MLK Day 2026
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Viola Liuzzo Street Renaming Honors Civil Rights Martyr

April 19, 2026 fwstaff
  By Fighting Words Staff On Saturday, April 11, 2026, more than 100 people gathered at the corner of Pembroke and Mansfield on the northwest side of Detroit for a ceremony to rename a portion […]
Dr. King on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel, April 4, 1968
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POP Chairman Visits Site of Dr. King’s Shooting

April 13, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress People’s Organization For Progress chairman Lawrence Hamm will visit the site where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on the anniversary of his assassination. Hamm will be flying […]
Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
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Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks Helped Ignite the Mass Civil Rights Movement

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A pioneer in the struggle for equal opportunity and the eradication of racism, Claudette Colvin (1939-2026), joined the ancestors on January 13. Her contributions to the mass Civil Rights Movement came about […]
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Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (1943-2025) Leaves a Decades-long Legacy of Revolutionary Struggle

November 30, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday November 23, 2025, Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin passed away in a prison hospital after serving a quarter century of incarceration for a crime he did not commit. Born Hubert Geroid […]
Arrest photo of Civil Rights icon, John Lewis, from 1961
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Good Trouble civil rights protest in the spirit of Congressman John Lewis

July 21, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress The Good Trouble Lives On March and Rally to protest the disastrous policies of the Trump administration and to commemorate civil rights icon John Lewis will take place Thursday, July […]
Detroit to Selma panel at WSU Law School, Sept. 14, 2024
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From Detroit to Selma and Back Again

September 21, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A series of events between September 12-14 in Detroit paid tribute to the life and legacy of those who were on the frontlines of the struggle for Civil Rights during the early […]
From Juneteenth to Freedom Summer & Beyond
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From Juneteenth to Freedom Summer

July 11, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 18 in Detroit at the St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, five veteran women organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Northern Student Movement, spoke on the significance […]