white supremacy

Crimson Record on modern day lynching
Domestic News

Modern Day Racist Violence Breeds Strange Fruit in the 21st Century

September 12, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “Strange Fruit” was a poem later turned into a protest song which was popularized by the legendary Jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1939. The poem and later song were composed by a […]
Virginia prisoner exposes racist use of attack dogs in remote prisons
Domestic News

Racialized abuses of attack dogs persist in remote Virginia prisons

August 12, 2026 fwstaff
By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson On December 11, 2025, the Virginia Mercury followed up on a July 2022 Business Insider investigation and report on abuses of attack dogs inside U.S. prisons, with an article on continued […]
Dred and Harriet Scott
Domestic News

Supreme Court Rejects Executive Order Reversing Birthright Citizenship

July 26, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In a 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court struck down an executive order issued by President Donald Trump during the early days of his second non-consecutive term. Trump, who has built […]
South Africa anti-xenophobic demonstration
International News

Attacks in South Africa Undermining the Country and Africa as a Whole

July 14, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the month of June, what is known as xenophobic and “afro-phobic” attacks have been occurring in the Republic of South Africa, a nation of 65 million which emerged from apartheid rule […]
NAACP launches the Out of Bounds campaign
Domestic News

African Americans in Southern States Continue Struggles to Regain Voting Rights

June 8, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe In an emergency appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which is dominated by Conservatives in a 6-3 majority, the elimination of an entire district where African Americans have a sizable vote […]
Domestic News

Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling Protested in Newark

May 24, 2026 fwstaff
By People’s Organization for Progress Social justice activists and labor leaders protested a recent Supreme Court ruling in a major voting rights case at a federal district court house yesterday. The demonstration took place Wednesday, […]
Tennessee protest over redistricting vote in Nashville
Domestic News

Southern States Move Toward Massive Disenfranchisement of African Americans

May 24, 2026 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe On May 7, just hours after the Republican-dominated Tennessee State Assembly passed legislation which split Memphis into three separate congressional districts, the city which has a large majority of African Americans could […]
HIV/AIDS activists’ direct action at the White House on World AIDS Day
Domestic News

HIV/AIDS: a Global Class Struggle

December 30, 2025 fwstaff
By Gerry Scoppettuolo These are worrisome and dangerous times for the 41 million people living with HIV/AIDS on the globe (1.2 million in the United States). In the past forty years for which there is […]
Haitian gang members threaten the county’s population
Domestic News

Kristi Noem Lies: Stop the Deportation of 340,000 Haitians with Temporary Protected Status

December 14, 2025 fwstaff
By Charlie Hinton Per The Guardian 11/26/25, “The Trump administration has once again moved to halt humanitarian protections for Haitians living in the US, this time announcing that their temporary protected status (TPS) will expire […]
Domestic News

Lawsuit Charges Racism in Texas Redistricting Scheme

September 3, 2025 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe For several weeks Democratic lawmakers within the State of Texas have been waging a political struggle to halt a redistricting plan which would effectively disenfranchise millions of African American voters. These plans […]