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Us, Culture and Struggle: Ultimately Engaged and Achieved on the Ground
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Us, Culture and Struggle: Ultimately Engaged and Achieved on the Ground

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 19, 2019

This is a sankofa retrieval of thoughts on an anniversary past that still reveals positions and principles as relevant and real as rain in monsoon season. And it is reflective of the deep and enduring commitment we of Us have to the priority of our people, opposition to our oppressor and oppression, and to a communitarian African way of life and thus to the unfinished and ongoing liberation struggle we must continue to wage to achieve this.

Righteous and Relentless Struggle: 
Reflections on the Principle and Practice
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Righteous and Relentless Struggle: 
Reflections on the Principle and Practice

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 30, 2018

Even without understanding it in the depth that would come later, we were in, 1965, a new generation building on centuries of sacrifice and struggles of all those who preceded us, those who cleared firm and sacred ground on which we stood and still stand and who opened essential and upward ways on which we would continue the unfinished struggle for liberation and ever higher levels of human life. In speaking of this history, Mary McLeod Bethune told us we are heirs and custodians of a great legacy,” but we were not always able to recognize and rightfully respect the historical and cultural ties of life and struggle that bound us with each preceding generation.