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December 26: Dr. Maulana Karenga Started Kwanzaa Today in 1966
Photo credits: Malcolm Ali/WireImage Maulana Karenga (pictured) was born in Parsonsburg, Maryland, and moved to California in 1958 where he studied at Los Angeles City College (LACC) and UCLA. At LACC, Karenga became involved in campus politics, was elected the first African American Study Body
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Women, Holding Up Half of Heaven: Sustaining the Movement and the World - Los Angeles Sentinel
As we close out the month of March, Black History Month II: Women Focus, I am drawn to two ancient teachings concerning the sacred and social significance of women in the world. And I want to use them as foundation and framework for paying homage to African women of the world, of the Movement and
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What you need to know about Kwanzaa
By Laura Onyeneho | Houston Defender | Word In Black Thispostwas originally published onDefender Network (WIB) - Starting December 26, the seven-night celebration of Kwanzaa begins. This African-American and Pan-African […] The post What you need to know about Kwanzaa appeared f
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The Caring Presence and Practice of Fatherhood: A Compelling Call and Continuing Need - Los Angeles Sentinel
This is a Father’s Day message for Black fathers, African fathers, made more  urgent and needed by the constantly changing and ever challenging times in which we strive to live good lives, do our work well, and wage victorious struggles of smaller and larger
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Women Leaders on Sen. Harris Replacement: “One Is Not Enough, Zero Is Unacceptable.” - Los Angeles Sentinel
The California Democratic Party Black Caucus (CDP Black Caucus) joined hands with other women organizations this past weekend‌. Their goal: to turn up the pressure on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a Black woman to replace outgoing Sen. Kamala Harris in the
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Heri za Kwanzaa to Limbiko: Beautiful, Black and Radiant Spirit - Los Angeles Sentinel
Heri za Kwanzaa, Happy Kwanzaa to you, Limbiko. In the tradition of our Kemetic ancestors, this is a letter long overdue since May, the month of your coming into being and beginning the journey of life and love, work and struggle that would lead you to us and a new way and wonder of being African
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Conversations with Dr. George W. Carver: The Languages and Lessons of Nature  - Los Angeles Sentinel
Clearly, one of the most important early voices calling on us to be in harmony with nature, to share the good of nature, and to rightfully use the planet’s resources is Dr. George Washington Carver. And in memory and honor of him and in marking this year’s Earth Day, I revisit below some thoughts
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In Rightful Remembrance of Min. Malcolm:Valuing our Lives, Work and Struggle  - Los Angeles Sentinel
If we are to rightfully remember Min. Malcolm, we must seriously grasp and practice what he so meticulously taught us about valuing our lives, our work and our struggle. Here I use grasp to mean take in hand and heart his legacy, study and understand it, and hold it firmly as a valuable heritage
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Black Health, Wellness and Struggle: Towards A Radical Racial Healing - Los Angeles Sentinel
This year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Health and Wellness,” opens space for us to call into focus our self-determined and self-sustaining ways of knowing, working and struggling to achieve, protect, promote and sustain our health, health care and healing in a society which is the source of
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Keeping Faith with Nana Fanon, Reaffirming the Cultural Revolution  - Los Angeles Sentinel
Nana Frantz Fanon (July 20,1925–December 6, 1961), noble ancestor and teacher of the righteous, radical and transformative word, believed in Africa’s capacity to repair, raise and renew itself, and in the African people’s will to unite and liberate themselves, bring into being a new world, woman
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Swahili, Pan-Africanism and the Practice of Freedom: A Language of Liberation, Community and Culture - Part 2 - Los Angeles Sentinel
My interest in and embrace of Kiswahili as a pan-African language of choice raised questions of how best to communicate this choice and initiative to the African American community as well as the larger world African community. The post Swahili, Pan-Africanism and the Practice of Freedom: A Langu
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The Liberating Mission of Dr. Martin L. King: Living a Legacy of Service, Struggle and Sacrifice – Part 2  - Los Angeles Sentinel
 Nana King, in defining his first practice of service, phrases it as “trying to love somebody,” which is a linking of two of the central pillars in his self-understanding and self-assertion in the
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Reading Battlefield Notes from A. Philip Randolph: Lessons in Labor, Freedom, Justice and Struggle - Los Angeles Sentinel
As we celebrate International Labor Day, May 1, and pay homage to the awesome sacrifices and costly struggles of Black workers and other workers of the world to get economic justice, it is important to remember A. Philip Randolph’s admonition that the struggle for freedom and justice is always an
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America in Crisis Between Massacres and Myths: Seeking a Moral Compass and Commitment to Change  - Los Angeles Sentinel
America is in crisis, having become a society against itself, moving from massacre to massacre seemingly with a mad hatter’s moral compass and a woefully insufficient moral commitment to clear a path to put the gun down as solution and salvation and stop the disabling and deadly violence against
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Reimagining and Reordering L.A. City Governance: An Ethics of Shared Power and Shared Good  - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Celebrating Black Women’s History: Achievements, Strengths and Struggles - Los Angeles Sentinel
This year’s celebration of Black History Month II: Women’s Focus comes at a time of the pandemic COVID-19 and the continuing pathology of oppression. It is also a time of resistance, rising up and raising the battle cries: Black Women Rising; Black Men Rising; Black People Rising; No Justice, No
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Still Under the Broken Bridge of Immigration: Resisting With Our Haitian and Other Relatives - Los Angeles Sentinel
The U.S. must stop imposing on Haiti its imperialist system of domination, deprivation and degradation The post Still Under the Broken Bridge of Immigration: Resisting With Our Haitian and Other Relatives appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
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Telling and Taking Back Tulsa: Resisting Erasure and Americana Appropriation - Los Angeles Sentinel
This current focus of the country on this horrendous act of racist terrorism, massacre and mayhem and destruction imposed and inflicted on the Black people of Tulsa, May 31-June 1, does not come as an expression of required contrition after a century of concealment and denial. Rather, it comes as
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Grounding and Centering Ourselves: Chosen to Bring Good in the World  - Los Angeles Sentinel
 In these tragic, troubled and troubling times, it is still important for all of us, soldiers, civilians and supporters, to constantly pause, reflect and renew ourselves. So, I share again some thoughts on grounding and centering ourselves in our ongoing striving and struggling to bring and sustain
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African Liberation Day and the Nguzo Saba:Principles and Practices for Liberating Struggle  - Los Angeles Sentinel
On behalf of the African American Cultural Center (Us), we send greetings of solidarity and increased and continuing struggle to all African peoples throughout the world African
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“Black People: Storm Riding, Whirlwind Blooming, Specializing in the Wholly Impossible” - Los Angeles Sentinel
Once again, the edges of the years have met and merged, and another new year has come. And we find ourselves and the world in the midst of winter in the worst of ways. COVID-19, a pandemic of worldwide proportions and devastating impact, has swept across the world, wreaking havoc on the
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To Unite the Nation With Justice: Securing Medicine, Money and Means for All - Los Angeles Sentinel
The current conversations concerning the urgency and need to unite the nation must always be undergirded and informed by a parallel recognition of the urgent and unavoidable need of an inclusive and substantive justice. For there can be no real, moral or meaningful unity without justice. As we know
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Us Still Steadfast in the Struggle: 228 Seasons of Righteous Resistance - Los Angeles Sentinel
This September 7th and the whole month, I am honored and uplifted in beautiful and sustaining ways to celebrate in praise and thanks with all our advocates (members), those present and those no longer with us, and with all our sustainers, supporters and well-wishers, this the 57th anniversary of
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Uplifting the Legacy of the Hon. Marcus Garvey:  The Global Struggle for His Exoneration  - Los Angeles Sentinel
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Democratic Blue and Peoplehood Black: Necessary Distinctions Between People and Party  - Los Angeles Sentinel
 It is said that the defeat of Donald Trump signals that the country is ready for a change, but we have not been given on the nightly news, on social media or by mail, anything that resembles a comprehensive view of what the change might look like. Nor have we heard from the academy, Congress, or
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The Seven-Fold Path of Blackness: Color, Culture and Self-Conscious Practice  - Los Angeles Sentinel
Since the Sixties, we of Us have understood, engaged and embraced Blackness as a very serious and sacred way of being and becoming in the world, an African way, a unique and equally valid and valuable way of being human with all its rich and varied possibilities and worthy of the highest
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Resisting the Republican Recall: Not Confusing Need with Anger at Newsom - Los Angeles Sentinel
We cannot talk about this Republican recall in isolation from the continuing history of vote and voter suppression The post Resisting the Republican Recall: Not Confusing Need with Anger at Newsom appeared first on Los Angeles Sentinel.
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The Radical Emergence of Kawaida Philosophy: A Critical Time of Turning - Los Angeles Sentinel
Again, in our continuing celebration and assessment of our 56 years and 224 seasons of work, service, struggle and institution-building as the organization Us, we are ultimately and unavoidably led to Kawaida
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COVID and Two Ways Before Us: Open Up, We Live; Close Down, We Die” - Los Angeles Sentinel
We are again on the battlefield of health and well-being for our people confronted with a vicious virus that is ravaging our communities at higher rates than others with the possible exception of Native
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