MLK Day

Detroit MLK Day audience at St. Matthew's -St. Joseph's Church
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Detroit MLK Day Continues the Struggle Against Racism, Poverty and Militarism

January 27, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Monday, January 20, 2025, the Detroit MLK Committee held its 22nd Annual day of commemoration for the life, times and contributions of the martyred Civil Rights and Antiwar leader Dr. Martin […]
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Detroiters unite to resist Trump, celebrate legacy of MLK

January 25, 2025 fwstaff
  By Cameron Harrison DETROIT—“I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead,” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said in his final speech before he was assassinated. The words of […]
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22nd Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally and March

December 1, 2024 fwstaff
By Detroit MLK Committee For Immediate Release Event: 22nd Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally & March Location: St. Matthew’s-St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church, 8850 Woodard Avenue at Holbrook Date & Time: Mon. Jan. 20, 2025, 12 […]
Detroit MLK Day 2024 audience in sanctuary and balcony
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Detroit’s 21st Annual MLK Day Rally Focused on Labor, Community and Palestinian Struggles

January 24, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Shawn Fain, President of the UAW International, noted during his major policy address at the 21st Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally that the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights remains […]
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Newark, NJ MLK Day Rally Announced

January 5, 2024 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress THE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM JANUARY 3, 2024 FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE MARTIN LUTHER KING MARCH & RALLY FOR […]
Detroit MLK Day 2023 march up Woodward
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Detroit 20th Annual MLK Day Calls for United Struggle Against Racism, Poverty and Militarism

January 21, 2023 fwstaff
Photos: Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan-African News Wire By Fighting Words Staff On Monday, January 16, 2023, the federally recognized holiday in honor of the martyred Civil Rights and Antiwar leader, a broad spectrum of organizations, activists […]
MLK at 1963 Detroit march with CL Franklin
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Honoring MLK Six Decades After the Mass Struggles of 1963

January 11, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On January 16 in the United States, the 94th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be commemorated as a federal holiday. Since 1986, the third Monday of January has been […]
Recent POP demonstration
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Remembering All of Martin Luther King’s Social Justice Agenda

January 18, 2022 fwstaff
By Larry Hamm, Chairman of People’s Organization for Progress Reprinted On January 15th — the actual birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — the People’s Organization For Progress held its annual march in his […]
Catherine Coleman Flowers Detroit MLK Day keynote speaker, Jan. 17, 2022
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The Continuing Struggle for Voting Rights

January 18, 2022 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part to the 19th Annual MLK Day virtual webinar held in the city of Detroit. The event has been held online for the […]
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Defeat the Right and Imperialist War

January 28, 2021 fwstaff
Note: These remarks were delivered at the Virtual 18th Annual Detroit MLK Day Rally and Cultural Program held on Monday January 18, 2021. This event brought together over 30 speakers and cultural workers to honor […]