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Remembering the Watts Revolt: A Shared Condition, Consciousness and Commitment
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Remembering the Watts Revolt: A Shared Condition, Consciousness and Commitment

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 29, 2019

The Anniversary of the 1965 Watts Revolt occurs in the context of a larger history of Black struggle, sacrifices and achievements: the assassination, sacrifice and martyrdom of Min. Malcolm X; the Selma March; the Voting Rights Act; the founding of our organization Us and the African American Cultural Center; and the introduction of the Black value system, the Nguzo Saba, which became the core values of the pan-African holiday Kwanzaa and of Kawaida, a major Movement philosophy of life and struggle.

Houston, We Have A Problem: America, Spacetripping With Trump
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Houston, We Have A Problem: America, Spacetripping With Trump

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 1, 2019

This is not a drill. “Houston, we have a problem,” or more historically and currently correct, “Houston, we’ve had a problem, here.” It’s not a problem of a ship in space, but rather the ship of state, setting aside its best-documents claims and making a hard right turn towards its worst-practices. And both the captain and crew are unrepentantly and defiantly doing and saying immoral, mad, mean-spirited and small-minded things.

Embracing the Courageous Four: Radically Reconceiving and Reconstructing America
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Embracing the Courageous Four: Radically Reconceiving and Reconstructing America

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 25, 2019

In spite of the forked-tongue talk, doublespeak and patently racist ranting of the pretending President Trump and the White supremacist mob-like cheerleaders chanting hatred at his rallies, we must not miss the fresh, air-clearing and uplifting wind that is steadily rising and blowing our way. It is the transforming force of the voice, views and defiant struggles of the courageous four “freshmen” congresswomen: Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA); Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY); and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).

Bethune, Democracy and July 4th: Courageous Questioning and Constant Struggle
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Bethune, Democracy and July 4th: Courageous Questioning and Constant Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 4, 2019

Usually when we want to confront and discount America’s founding myth of creating a democracy of free and equal persons, its hypocritical and high-hype claims of justice for all and its self-congratulatory celebration of this myth on the 4thof July, we call Frederick Douglass to the dais. Or we hear Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer and others knocking at the door, coming to insist on a courageous questioning of the self-deluding lies this society routinely tells itself.

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.

Concerning History, Heritage and Struggle: Reaffirming and Renewing Our Vanguard Role
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Concerning History, Heritage and Struggle: Reaffirming and Renewing Our Vanguard Role

Dr. Maulana KarengaFebruary 28, 2019

If we are to know ourselves rightly, honor our history, radically improve our present and forge a future worthy of the names African and human, then we must reaffirm and renew our moral and social vanguard role as a people, wage righteous and relentless resistance to evil and injustice everywhere, and put forth in plan and practice a new history and hope for our people and humankind. In the months of February and March, which we of Us have designated as Black History Month I (General Focus) and Black History Month II (Women Focus), our people have set aside time and space to celebrate ourselves inhistoryand ashistory. For we are producers and products of this sacred narrative, and the subject and center of this awesome record and struggle, the most ancient of human histories.

Civility No Solution to Oppression: Only Relentless Resistance Will End It
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Civility No Solution to Oppression: Only Relentless Resistance Will End It

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 12, 2018

Inherent in this deceptive and hypocritical call for civility and condemnation of confrontation of the oppressor and oppression everywhere are attempts to tie it to both irresponsible activity and violence. Min. Malcolm taught us that this is a standard tactic of the oppressor to discredit and deter resistance. He observed how the established order seeks to silence and crush resistance by associating it with violence and criminalizing it. Using lynching as an example, he says that they redefine victim and victimizer “If (we) do anything to stop the man from putting that rope around (our) neck.”

BCCLA Statement In Support of Congresswoman Maxine Waters
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BCCLA Statement In Support of Congresswoman Maxine Waters

BCCLA Steering CommitteeJuly 5, 2018

Rep. Waters has both the right and responsibility to speak truth to power and speak truth to the people. And we as a people and a community also have the right and responsibility to confront evil and injustice everywhere. Indeed, we must not and will not let our silence suggest consent, our inaction suggest agreement or our reluctance to confront and resist give encouragement for greater evils, injustice and oppression.

15 Past and Modern Day Female Activists of Our Time 
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15 Past and Modern Day Female Activists of Our Time 

Kimberlee Buck, Staff Writer March 1, 2018

Since the beginning of its inception, women have dedicated their lives to shaping and transforming America into the country we see today. This week, we kick-off the celebration of Women’s History Month by paying homage to a few women of color, who have rallied for change both locally and nationally.