racism

Protests like the 2011 takeover of the Wisconsin State Capitol will continue to confront the right-wing, racist forces
Domestic News

Capitalists Choose Milwaukee for the RNC Because Wisconsin is THE Austerity Model

July 9, 2024 fwstaff
By Dorothy Brown The legacy of unions and community advances in Wisconsin is deep and has often been led by socialists and communists and other militants. This people’s resistance is continuing during the Republican National […]
Palestinian children view the destruction in Gaza
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Dreams Are Stronger Than Drones | Poetic Petition to Genocide Joe Before He Eats His Turkey | Delivery Failed | For Those Who Bear Witness to the Genocide in Palestine

December 3, 2023 fwstaff
Dreams Are Stronger Than Drones a long time ago one of my children asked me where do dreams go when they die but i was too young to know what to reply today i would […]
Six year-old Wadea al-Fayoume killed in Illinois anti-Palestinian hate crime
International News

BEHEADED CHILDHOOD – a poem by Julia Wright

October 18, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright July 22 1941 the girl next door is getting married so Anne Frank leans out of her Amsterdam window to get a peek and tosses her hair in childish excitement – it […]
African American journalism Professor Kathleen McElroy
Domestic News

Ban on Affirmative Action Part of Broader Wave of Racism in Education

August 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe When the conservative-dominated United States Supreme Court on June 29 ruled 6-3 that any program implemented in a higher educational setting which facilitates racial diversity and inclusion was a violation of the […]
Nahel (l) and his mother
International News

NAHEL’S FRANCE: NEO COLONIALIZED AND PAN AFRICAN VOICES SPEAK UP

July 15, 2023 fwstaff
By Julia Wright Two days ago, my client told me he was thinking of committing suicide because his profession has been attacked for two to three weeks now even though he is convinced he acted […]
Domestic News

Tucker Carlson and the U.S. war on China

May 3, 2023 fwstaff
By Gary Wilson Why was Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News? Not for any of his known offensives, even though that’s a very long list. Carlson is the millionaire (net worth $420 million) son of […]
Kansas City protest against the shooting of Ralph Yarl
Domestic News

Black Lives Remain in Danger Throughout the United States

April 22, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Even after three years of mass demonstrations and urban rebellions in the United States, law-enforcement agencies and the entire legal system are still “justifying” the shooting deaths of African Americans and other […]
Tennessee Lawmakers Justin Pearson (r) and Justin Jones
Domestic News

African American Tennessee Lawmakers Reinstated to State House

April 15, 2023 fwstaff
  By Abayomi Azikiwe Two African American state representatives to the Tennessee House of Representatives have been returned to the Capitol in Nashville by the local councils in Nashville and Memphis. The expulsions by the […]
Tennessee Democratic state reps. attacked by Republican majority
Domestic News

Two African American State Representatives Expelled by Tennessee Republican Majority

April 12, 2023 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Tennessee State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson were expelled by the Republican supermajority in Nashville on April 6. Another state house member, Gloria Johnson, who is white, survived the expulsion […]
African students continue experiencing racism after fleeing Ukraine war
International News

Statement on the situation of African Students who were studying in Ukraine

February 28, 2023 fwstaff
By Africans in Ukraine As the thousands of African students who fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion in February 2022, we are writing to you in a time of great need. We are calling on […]