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Lawrence Hamm at the Lorraine Motel
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Hamm Journeys to MLK’s Assassination Site

April 19, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress People’s Organization For Progress chairman Lawrence Hamm visited the site where Dr Martin Luther King Jr was shot and killed on the anniversary of his assassination. Hamm flew to Memphis, Tennessee […]
Viola Luizzo poster at Detroit MLK Day 2026
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Viola Liuzzo Street Renaming Honors Civil Rights Martyr

April 19, 2026 fwstaff
  By Fighting Words Staff On Saturday, April 11, 2026, more than 100 people gathered at the corner of Pembroke and Mansfield on the northwest side of Detroit for a ceremony to rename a portion […]
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Hundreds Pack the Islamic Society of Milwaukee to Demand: ‘Free Palestinian Leader Salah Sarsour NOW!’

April 6, 2026 fwstaff
By WI Bail Out the People Movement Join Us in Standing with Salah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s largest mosque! https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/salah_sarsour_justice_fund Contribute to Salah’s Justice Fund & Help Us Defend […]
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 […]
Amy Ashwood Garvey with Paul Robeson and Claudia Jones in England
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Pan-Africanism, Garveyism and Women’s Rights

March 5, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Resistance to the enslavement and colonial domination over African people can be traced back to the wars and rebellions which took place on the continent as early as the 15th century. Even […]
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 […]
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The Trump Administration’s Plot to Disarm Transgender Workers:

September 10, 2025 fwstaff
    By Marta Ilyich “History teaches us that when an economic crisis hits, the process of scapegoating becomes more intense and more violent. African-American, Latino, Asian, and Arab peoples, lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals, […]
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Trump’s Creation/Implementation of the Racist Police State

August 28, 2025 fwstaff
  By Russ Bellant Trumpworld has begun its plans to invade “big blue cities” with his takeover of Washington, D.C.’s. government and placing troops with armored vehicles on their streets. His targets are cities with […]
UCLA walkout demanding disclosure and divestment
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Trump Continues Assault on Higher Education

August 18, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe United States Federal District Court Judge Rita Lin of San Francisco ruled that the ongoing suspension of grant funding from the National Science Foundation to the University of California at Los Angeles […]
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 […]