Kofi-Charu Nat Turner, PhD, is the grandson of distinguished civil rights leader Caffie Greene. As an ode to his grandmother, Dr. Turner has written the first biography about her, “Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists: Unsung Women of the Black Liberation Movement,” and is set to host the book’s official launch on Sunday, June 1, at Sole Folks Bookstore in Leimert Park.
As we move into May, the month of Nana Haji Malcolm’s coming into being, I would like to share some thoughts from this text in commemoration and celebration of his radically instructive and uplifting life and legacy.
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As we continue to mark, celebrate and commemorate the 55th Anniversary of the founding of our organization Us, 6205 | September 7 | 1965, I want to continue to draw from some of our early ideas and practices and discuss and demonstrate their current and enduring relevance.
This marks the 53rd annual celebration of the self-determined, culturally-grounded and family and community focused holiday, Kwanzaa. Celebrated by millions of people throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa is a seven-day (December 26-January 1) pan-African and African American holiday created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies, Cal State University, Long Beach and executive director of the African American Cultural Center (Us).
Harding, like all our moral teachers, rightly cautions us to be measured and moral in our quest and constant striving