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Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown at Hamilton Hall Columbia, 1968
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Assata Shakur and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) Symbolized the Transformation of the Black Struggle

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Assata Shakur (formerly known as Joann Chesimard) and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (also known as H. Rap Brown) passed away during 2025 amid the rise of state repression and fascism in the United […]
Don Freeman (1939-2025) speaking in Cleveland, July 30, 2011
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Don Freeman, 1939-2025, Veteran Cleveland-based Activist Leaves Profound Political Legacy

August 7, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the 1960s, the city of Cleveland, Ohio was at the center of several political trends emerging within the African American community nationwide. Its burgeoning African American working-class population, many of whom […]
Attendees of the APSP Plenary 2017 - Members, Supporters and Friends of the African People's Socialist Party and its mass organizations
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Fighting Words Statement on Racist Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party

April 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Editorial Staff The Fighting Words Editorial Staff vehemently denounces the racist attack on the African People’s Socialist Party and their Uhuru Solidarity Movement as a vicious attack on the Black Liberation movement, […]
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 […]
Chairman Yeshitela of the African People’s Socialist Party.
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FBI Targets U.S. Group for Opposing Ukraine Proxy War

August 6, 2022 fwstaff
By David Sole The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched several, coordinated, pre-dawn raids on the offices of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and its Uhuru Movement affiliate in St. Petersburg, Florida and St. […]
Malcolm X at last speech at the Audubon with undercover police officer Gene Roberts circled, Feb. 15, 1965
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Malcolm X Assassination Review Exonerates Two Men

December 12, 2021 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Malcolm X, also known as Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City. There were three […]