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Detroit’s Right to Counsel Victory Shows the Power of the People

October 25, 2022 fwstaff
By Tonya Phillips Political power.  The Right to Counsel Movement is an inspiring and continuing story of how the Detroit Right to Counsel Coalition and ordinary Detroiters activated our collective power and won one of […]
Detroit youth Porter Burkes killed by police
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Detroit City Council Expands “ShotSpotter” After Two More are Gunned Down by Police

October 16, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In a 5-4 vote on October 11, the Detroit City Council provided yet another example as to why there must be a major defunding of the police in urban areas. The political […]
Aretha Franklin and former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
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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 […]
Detroit Right to Counsel celebration
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Detroit “Right to Counsel” Coalition Gathers to Celebrate Passage of City Ordinance

July 2, 2022 fwstaff
  By Fighting Words Staff Members and supporters of the Right to Counsel Coalition which worked for several years to pass the recent ordinance guaranteeing legal assistance for those facing housing problems, held an outdoor […]
Detroit Gateway to Freedom Monument at the Riverfront looking towards Canada, June 18, 2022
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Juneteenth Commemorated While Total Freedom for Americans Remains Elusive

June 27, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Juneteenth was designated as a federal holiday during 2021 by the United States administration of President Joe Biden. This act of recognition came in the aftermath of an upsurge in mass demonstrations […]
Detroit CPTA press briefing with Atty. Nancy A. Parker
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Detroit Organizations File Memorandum with Justice Department on Police Misconduct

May 21, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A press conference held by numerous community organizations in Detroit on May 19 demanded that the administration of President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice conduct an investigation into allegations of brutality and […]
Detroit demonstration at Wayne County Treasurer against tax foreclosures
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Detroit’s Fiscal Budget: A Case Study in Corporate Domination

May 13, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A recent debate over the fiscal budget for 2022-2023 for the City of Detroit revealed the political character of the current administration and City Council. The budget was approved for $2.4 billion […]
Detroit demonstration takes the street in defense of reproductive freedom
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Detroit Women March for Reproductive Freedom

May 13, 2022 fwstaff
Photos: Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire By Fighting Words Staff Joining thousands of others across the United States, women and their allies rallied and marched through downtown Detroit on Saturday, May 7, 2022. The protests […]
Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition demonstration outside Wayne County Treasurer on March 30, 2022
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Foreclosure Moratorium Extended One Year in Detroit and Wayne County

April 7, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe A Wayne County judge on March 29 granted a motion by Treasurer Eric Sabree extending the ban on owner-occupied homes being placed in jeopardy of seizure and public auction. This decision came […]
Detroit demonstration to halt property tax foreclosures
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Tens of Thousands Threatened with Property Tax Foreclosures in Detroit

March 29, 2022 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe March 31 has been designated as the deadline for Wayne County residents to pay back property taxes from 2019 and before, despite the failure of the relevant authorities to provide adequate assistance […]