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“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

Bringing Forth the Fire Within Us: Weathering the Worst of Winters
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Bringing Forth the Fire Within Us: Weathering the Worst of Winters

Dr. Maulana KarengaApril 2, 2020

Reflecting on the challenge before us, I am drawn to the word for “challenge” in Swahili, changamoto. The word is a combination of two words—moto (fire) and changa which has several meanings, but is here interpreted as both to collect and to contribute. Thus, it literally means both to collect and contribute fire, a gathering and giving of fire, interpreting fire here as vital and transformative energy and focused and determined agency.

Righteous and Relentless Struggle: 
Reflections on the Principle and Practice
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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.