African American Family History Conference

Living Malcolm’s Liberation Ethics: Remembering, Rising, Raising and Resisting

Dr. Maulana KarengaMay 18, 2017

In this month of heightened homage and increased attention to the life and legacy of Min. Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, it is important to do so placing rightful and repeated emphasis on his commitment to the liberation of our people and all the downtrodden and oppressed peoples of the world, especially the dark peoples of the world with whom he felt a special kinship of shared humanity and interrelated struggles.

Religion

Retired Black Exec Finds Her Chinese Family

Kathy Bence (Contributing Writer)January 20, 2016

Pursuing her long-lost grandfather and her life-long yearning to know her extended family resulted in retired NBC Universal executive, Paula Williams Madison, meeting more than 300 Chinese relatives and finding lineage that dated back more than 3,000 years. Her book and documentary by the same name, “Finding Samuel Lowe,” is a memoire that leads from New York to Jamaica to China where Madison finally meets the family of her maternal grandfather, Samuel Lowe. “I had no idea that my family from China would be so large and we were blessed because of the way they reacted to us,” she said.