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Barbara Lee, Laphonza Butler and Us: The Nettlesome Problems Newsom Has Posed
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Barbara Lee, Laphonza Butler and Us: The Nettlesome Problems Newsom Has Posed

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 12, 2023

Regardless of the moral compass, political calculus and complex consideration we use, navigating the muddy, murky and riptide waters of America’s racialized two-party politics has always been for us as a people a precarious, perilous and certainly problematic practice. And we are certainly reminded of this by the recent nettlesome and problematic appointment by Gov. Gavin Newsom of now Sen. Laphonza Butler instead of Rep. Barbara Lee to fill California’s vacant U.S. Senate seat and our need to respond to it in the most effective and beneficial ways.  

Remembering Our Massive Marches in Washington: Memory, Tradition, Demands and the Unfinished Struggle
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Remembering Our Massive Marches in Washington: Memory, Tradition, Demands and the Unfinished Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 31, 2023

As we commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, if we remember and reason rightly about our most massive marches in Washington, the threatened “thundering March” on Washington in 1941, the March on Washington in 1963, and the Million Man March in 1995, we realize that they have similar and interlocking lessons, aims and aspirations rooted in our centuries-old and ongoing righteous struggle for freedom as a people

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“Practicing Pan-Africanism with Nana Marcus Garvey: The Retrieval, Redemption and Liberation of Global Africa” 

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 24, 2023

At this hour of urgency and needed liberative initiatives in African and human history, and in this month, Black August, the site and source of such instructive memory and intensified movement, the name, life and legacy of Nana Marcus Garvey looms large as a model and mirror for our assessing and achieving our liberational goals in moving ahead in these rough and exacting times. 

Recalling Our Kawaida Maatian Master Class: Careful Thought About Things That Matter 
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Recalling Our Kawaida Maatian Master Class: Careful Thought About Things That Matter 

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 3, 2023

The emerging age of the centrality of artificial intelligence in our lives unavoidably raises the question of the increasing imposed artificiality of our lives, not only in terms of the mediating and problematic role of machines, screens and devices in our relations with each other, but also our conceptions of a good life, a good person and a good society. 

Bearing Witness to the Wonder of Nana JoAnn Watson: Waking Up Detroit, Us and the World 
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Bearing Witness to the Wonder of Nana JoAnn Watson: Waking Up Detroit, Us and the World 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 20, 2023

Let us pause and bow our heads and raise our hands in rightful remembrance and praise for our beloved sister, freedom fighter, pastor, professor and political leader, reparations advocate and activist, and radio and TV host of “Wake Up Detroit,” a helper in time of need and “one who comes at the voice of the caller,” the Most Reverend Dr. JoAnn Watson who came into being April 19, 1951, and made transition and ascension on July10, 2023.  

Racial Justice, Reparations and Affirmative Action: Resisting Supreme Court Racist Fantasies and Fiats 
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Racial Justice, Reparations and Affirmative Action: Resisting Supreme Court Racist Fantasies and Fiats 

 Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 6, 2023

At the outset, let me begin by reassuring us and our opponents that regardless of the recent racist ruling of the Supreme Court to end affirmative action, this is not the end of our life or our struggle. Indeed, we have clearly weathered worst winters of White racism and supremacy and have repeatedly stood up defiantly in the coffins of oppression designed for our social death and continued our awesome and toll-taking march toward freedom.  

Frederick Douglass, July 4th and Us: Freedom, False Claims, Bad Faith and Unavoidable Struggle 
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Frederick Douglass, July 4th and Us: Freedom, False Claims, Bad Faith and Unavoidable Struggle 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJune 29, 2023

Whether we discuss emancipation in June, independence in July, revolt and revolution in August, Kwanzaa and cultural and political liberation in December, or achievements against the odds, resilience and resistance in February, the issue, imperative and urgency of freedom and struggle are always with us. Indeed, it runs like a red line through our most ancient, awesome and humanity-revealing history.  

Being Belafonte On the Battlefront: Summoning Radical Thinking and the Rebellious Heart 
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Being Belafonte On the Battlefront: Summoning Radical Thinking and the Rebellious Heart 

Dr. Maulana KarengaMay 4, 2023

There is clearly so much to say in paying rightful homage to Nana Harry Belafonte in meaningfully marking his recent transition and ascension to sit in the sacred circle of the ancestors, and people around the world have been offering well-deserved and appropriate praise to him. I had seen him first at the funeral service for Nana Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for whom he was a good friend, fundraiser, counselor, and strategist and had sung his songs while still in high school.