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Beyond the Bondage of Plantation Politics: Crafting Our Own Presidential Platform
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Beyond the Bondage of Plantation Politics: Crafting Our Own Presidential Platform

Dr. Maulana KarengaMay 9, 2019

Thus, we self-consciously called our Movement, the Black Freedom Movementand demanded “FreedomNow,” not civil rights now. We composed and sang freedomsongs, not civil rights songs. And we built freedomschools, not civil rights schools, and we risked our lives on freedomrides, not civil rights rides. You can always say there was indeed a fight for civil rights. But although civil rights were an important concern of the Black Freedom Movement, the Black Freedom struggle was committed to freedom as a more expansive concept, practice and goal. In a word, it was concerned about freedom from oppression and freedom to grow, develop and come into the fullness of ourselves.

Beyond the Bondage of Plantation Politics: Crafting Our Own Presidential Platform
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Beyond the Bondage of Plantation Politics: Crafting Our Own Presidential Platform

Dr. Maulana KarengaMay 2, 2019

During both the Holocaust of enslavement and the era of segregation, leaving the plantation was a metaphor, mental process and actual practice of freedom. It was a freeing oneself mentally and physically, thinking freedom and then acting in ways that led to its achievement as did Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Fannie Lou Hamer, Messenger Muhammad and countless others in their rejection of and resistance to enslavement and segregation. Clearly, it is rumored and reported in various official and unofficial send-outs and circles that we have all left the plantation and are all free. But today, regardless of official edited and embellished reports; images of mixed couples and company in TV commercials and movies; and our wishing and wanting to believe we are beyond its borders and bondage, the plantation and its politics remains with us.

Congresswoman Norton Fighting for Black Press in New Congress  
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Congresswoman Norton Fighting for Black Press in New Congress  

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent March 7, 2019

“I’m born and raised in this segregated city without any Home Rule rights and no equal rights when the city was segregated,” Norton said. “I’m a third generation Washingtonian and I’m the great, great granddaughter of a runaway slave, so motivation is built into my DNA.”  

California Legislature Passes Joint Resolution in Support of a Bayard Rustin Commemorative Postage Stamp
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California Legislature Passes Joint Resolution in Support of a Bayard Rustin Commemorative Postage Stamp

LAWT News ServiceMarch 1, 2019

On February 26, the California Legislature passed a joint resolution in support of the national Bayard Rustin Stamp campaign. Spearheaded by Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (AD 51), the concurrent resolution ACR-27 “honors the legacy of Bayard Rustin, who stood at the confluence of the greatest struggles for civil, legal, and human rights by African Americans, as well as the LGBTQ community, and whose focus on civil and economic rights and belief in peace and the dignity of all people remains as relevant today as ever.”

NAACP Celebrates 110th Anniversary of Freedom Fighting
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NAACP Celebrates 110th Anniversary of Freedom Fighting

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentFebruary 21, 2019

“Had there been no May 17, 1954 (the day the Supreme Court ruled in Brown V. Board of Education), I’m not sure there would have been a Little Rock. I’m not sure there would have been a Martin Luther King Jr., or Rosa Parks, had it not been for May 17, 1954. It created an environment for us to push, for us to pull,” Lewis said.

Wendy’s Window: ‘Civil Rights: Progression or Regression?’
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Wendy’s Window: ‘Civil Rights: Progression or Regression?’

Wendy GladneyFebruary 21, 2019

I was born of a White mother and a Black father in 1961 in Southern California during a time when America was experiencing segregation across the nation.  Although many of us in California did not feel the same effects as many of our relatives in the South, segregation was still alive and well throughout the country. The Civil Rights Movement was in its beginning stages and the 50’s and 60’s were pivotal in changing the face and climate of America. The Civil Rights Movement was organized by African Americans with the goal to help end racial discrimination and provide equal rights to all under the law.

Black Press, UAW Moves to Strengthen Already Solid Relationship
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Black Press, UAW Moves to Strengthen Already Solid Relationship

NNPA NewswireFebruary 15, 2019

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) has enjoyed a long history of supporting organized labor, particularly during the Civil Rights Movement when many unions and civil rights-focused organizations worked together to secure legislation that benefitted African Americans.

The Compelling Need and Notion of Freedom: Retrieving Our Expansive Concept of Struggle
Dr. Maulana KarengaOp-EdOpinion

The Compelling Need and Notion of Freedom: Retrieving Our Expansive Concept of Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 24, 2019

As we celebrate each year our strivings and struggles through history, the Black Freedom Movement is always a central focus. But we may not call it by its rightful name, because it has been renamed by the established order as the Civil Rights Movement and this has implications for us in terms of self-determination and how we define our goals, what we count as victory, and the lessons and spirit of life and struggle we learn and absorb from this world historical struggle. Our urgent and constant call was “Freedom Now!” and even now, it is no less necessary.

USC School of Architecture Launches Dean Curry’s New CreativeTalks Series
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USC School of Architecture Launches Dean Curry’s New CreativeTalks Series

Lauren A. Jones, Contributing WriterNovember 1, 2018

In an auditorium at the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture, students, faculty and the general public listened and participated in an interdisciplinary conversation between the School’s first black Dean, Milton S.F. Curry and his longtime colleague, Jason Stanley, a Yale University Professor of Philosophy and award-winning author, on Friday evening. “The motto is Citizen Architects,” Stanley, the Dean’s first guest speaker for the Dean’s CreativeTalks series, shared with the L.A. Sentinel. “Especially in Los Angeles, you need someone who’s thinking about the relationship of people to places and populations, I think USC Architecture very

Gospel Music Heritage Month Foundation Gives Soulful Tribute to Aretha Franklin
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Gospel Music Heritage Month Foundation Gives Soulful Tribute to Aretha Franklin

Sentinel News ServiceSeptember 20, 2018

The Gospel Music Heritage Month Foundation’s (GMHMF) 10th Evolution of Gospel presented an exhilarating, spirit-filled tribute to the life and legacy of the late great Aretha Franklin on a stage where she once performed; the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.  The evening featured soul-stirring musical performances from some of gospel’s leading artists and a litany of powerful narratives that paid homage to her expansive body of music and contribution to the civil rights movement. 

Race Has Always Mattered
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Race Has Always Mattered

Larry AubrySeptember 20, 2018

   The institutionalization of racial difference codified white peoples’ refusal to grant Blacks such basic democratic rights as citizenship, access to the legal system and the right to vote.