Civil Rights Movement

Irish speakers Paul Doherty and Ciara O'Connor on April 2, 2022 (Photo by Abayomi Azikiwe)
International News

Derry Delegation Visits Detroit to Commemorate 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

April 8, 2022 fwstaff 0

  By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 30, 1972, British military forces opened fire on a peaceful demonstration of 15,000 in Derry, Northern Ireland leaving 14 dead and many others wounded. This massacre became known as […]

Cambridge Movement leader Gloria Richardson pushes away National Guard bayonet in 1964
Domestic News

SNCC Veterans Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses Made Monumental Contributions to Civil Rights

July 29, 2021 fwstaff 0

By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of July, two heroic figures in the struggle against Jim Crow and race terror, Gloria Richardson Dandridge and Bob Moses passed away. Their lives intersected with the upsurge in […]