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59TH anniversary of the 1967 Newark Rebellion to be commemorated

July 15, 2026 fwstaff
1967 Newark Rebellion By People’s Organization for Progress The anniversary of a major uprising of the 1960s will be observed this weekend by a grassroots civil and human rights advocacy group. A march and rally […]
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Police Killing of One Year Old Protested

July 10, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress The People’s Organization For Progress will hold a press conference to discuss the fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley and other victims of police brutality. It will take place […]
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Justice for Alonzo Lee-Perkins – Shot in the back by Detroit Police

July 4, 2026 fwstaff
By BYP100 Justice for Alonzo: A Family’s Demand for Truth, Transparency, and Accountability For Immediate Release Detroit, MI – On the evening of June 22, 2026, during the Ford Fireworks celebration, 18-year-old Alonzo Lee-Perkins – […]
Serbians protest murder of 168 school girls in school bombing by US
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From Gaza to Minab | When the body becomes a voice | A War of Deletion | This Horror Humbles Me

March 24, 2026 fwstaff
  From Gaza to Minab – a poem for the one hundred and sixty-five children mass buried in Iran The U.S. used Anthropic’s Claude to support Operation Epic Fury against Iran yesterday, sources familiar with […]
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Double amputee beaten, tortured and terrorized for over a decade in Virginia prisons

February 3, 2026 fwstaff
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson The inhumanity of Virginia’s prisons knows no limits. The experiences of Neil Lyness aka Turbo proves the case. Neil is a double-amputee who lost his left arm and left leg in […]
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson currently being brutalized in S. Carolina’s Perry Correctional facility
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My retaliation and abuse continue in South Carolina prisons under interstate compact

February 2, 2026 fwstaff
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson Since I was interstate transferred to South Carolina from the Virginia prison system on May 1, 2025, I have endured continued abuses and retaliation in response to and to deter my […]
National Guard troops occupied Newark, NJ in the summer of 1967 to put down a mass rebellion against racism and poverty
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1967 Newark rebellion commemoration set for July 12th: can it happen again?

July 15, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for  Progress (POP) The People’s Organization For Progress (POP) will have a 1967 Newark Rebellion Commemoration March And Rally on the 58th anniversary of the uprising, Saturday, July 12, 2025, 12:00 noon […]
Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, being persecuted by Trump administration
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Civil rights group condemns charges brought against Congresswoman McIver

May 21, 2025 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress (POP) PO BOX 22505 NEWARK, NJ 07101 973 801-0001 www.njpop.org CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE The following statement was issue by Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress: […]
Memphis African American Tyre Nichols killed by cops
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Jury Acquits Memphis Cops on Murder Charges in the Killing of Tyre Nichols

May 20, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Yet another group of violent police officers have been acquitted in the death of an African American, this time in the city of Memphis. Although the police officers involved in the brutal […]
Viola Fletcher is the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Massacre
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Justice Department Abandons Investigation of Tulsa Race Massacre

March 10, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe One of the major failures of the previous administration of Joe Biden was not following through on policy mandates aimed at ameliorating the historical phenomenon of institutionalized racist violence in the United […]