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‘The Just and the Blind’ Honors Legacy of Freedom Fighters
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‘The Just and the Blind’ Honors Legacy of Freedom Fighters

Rodd A. Amos Contributing WriterAugust 7, 2024

“The Just and The Blind,” the acclaimed work by spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, came to The Ford in the Hollywood Hills on August 2. Roughly 500 concert-goers braved Friday rush hour for an evening of poetry, music, movement, and film projections that explored themes of racial profiling, sentencing, and the prison-industrial complex from the perspective of fathers of Black and Brown children.

“Forging Our Future With Fannie Lou Hamer: The Urgency and Value of Voting”
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“Forging Our Future With Fannie Lou Hamer: The Urgency and Value of Voting”

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 8, 2020

In the midst of the pandemic of COVID 19, the ongoing pathology of racist oppression and lying imposed as a way of life, the sacred charge to us by our honored foremother, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (October 6), to constantly question and radically transform America is both urgent and enduringly relevant. She taught that justice and freedom require truth and “if we want America to be a free society, we must stop lying” and stop people’s lying from going unchallenged. Indeed, we must speak truth to the people and speak truth to power

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Honored with NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award
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Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson Honored with NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMediaSeptember 17, 2020

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi), who began his grassroots political activism being a civil rights champion through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Tougaloo College, will receive the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 2020 National Leadership Award.

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She Will Answer

Amelia Ashley-Ward, Publisher, San Francisco Sun Reporter NewspaperAugust 27, 2020

Our future VP is who she is and where she is because she is driven in her quest for freedom, justice and equality and she is loyal. Senator Harris at times will stop what’s she’s doing to answer a call. I have known California’s first African American woman District Attorney and first African American Attorney General Harris to be this way for her 18-year political career. To make it plain: She is “Kamala Harris For the People.”

OPEN LETTER BY BLACK WOMEN LEADERS IN RESPONSE TO THE NARRATIVE SURROUNDING BLACK WOMEN NOMINEES FOR VICE PRESIDENT
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OPEN LETTER BY BLACK WOMEN LEADERS IN RESPONSE TO THE NARRATIVE SURROUNDING BLACK WOMEN NOMINEES FOR VICE PRESIDENT

Special to the SentinelAugust 4, 2020

Black women are many things. We are business executives, political strategists and elected officials, philanthropists, and activists. We are health and wellness practitioners. We are entertainers and faith leaders. We are wives, mothers, daughters, educators, and students. We set and shift culture. We build power and we are powerful.

Lifting Up Lowery, Vivian and Lewis: Living the Legacy, Freeing the People
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Lifting Up Lowery, Vivian and Lewis: Living the Legacy, Freeing the People

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 23, 2020

Clearly, there are several lessons to be gleaned from the legacy of these freedom warriors and workers for a new society and world. And the first is to rightfully locate them in Black history among their people, our people in the midst of an unfinished and ongoing Black freedom struggle. Indeed, there can be no correct understanding, appropriate appreciation or honest emulation of their lives and the lives of all those who preceded them and made them and us possible and of those who were their co-combatants, unless we place them all in the context of their people, our people, Black people and our struggle.

Achieving Justice for George Floyd: Radically Reimagining and Rebuilding America
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Achieving Justice for George Floyd: Radically Reimagining and Rebuilding America

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 16, 2020

Indeed, it is a clear and constant given that if we are to achieve real justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and all the victims of this racist violent democracy called America, to paraphrase Min. Malcolm, then we have two interrelated objectives that must be achieved. They are: radically reimagining and rebuilding America; and sustaining the struggle on every level which will make this possible. And key to all of this is holding the ground we’ve gained, building on what we have and fighting fiercely to move forward, day by day, year by year and battle by battle until victory is clearly won.

History, Memory and Struggle: The Morality of Remembrance
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History, Memory and Struggle: The Morality of Remembrance

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 30, 2020

Let us begin this sacred month offering tambiko, homage of rightful remembrance and profound appreciation of the way openers, lifters up of the light that lasts and tireless teachers of the good, the right and the possible. Let us say then, as it is written in the Husia: homage to you beautiful, Black and radiant spirits. You shall always be for us glorious spirits in heaven and a continuing powerful presence on earth. You are counted and honored among the ancestors. Your names shall endure as a monument. And what you’ve done on earth shall never perish or pass away. Hotep. Ase. Heri.

‘MICHAEL COLYAR’S MOMMA’ Charts “Ups, Downs and Zigs Zags” of Comedian’s Life
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‘MICHAEL COLYAR’S MOMMA’ Charts “Ups, Downs and Zigs Zags” of Comedian’s Life

Nadine Matthews, Contributing WriterSeptember 12, 2019

When comedian Michael Colyar talks to the LA Sentinel this past week, he has literally just had one of the most surreal experiences he’s ever had in his life. Not only did legendary soul musician Stevie Wonder just call into a radio talk show while Colyar was being interviewed, Wonder also asked Colyar for a ticket to one of the upcoming performances of his show Michael Colyar’s Momma.