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Resolving to be African in the World: Remembrance, Meditation and Recommitment
Dr. Maulana KarengaOp-EdOpinion

Resolving to be African in the World: Remembrance, Meditation and Recommitment

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 3, 2020

It is a fundamental Kawaida contention that we must bear the burden and glory of our history with strength, dignity and determination. Surely, the times ahead of us will demand of us the resourcefulness, resilience and righteous resistance by which we understand and assert ourselves in history and as history, embodied and unfolding. This means, in the language of everyday people, there can be no half-steppin’, no nick namin’ the truth, no spittin’ in the wind to see which way to go. On the contrary, we must be the storm riders and river turners Howard Thurman and Gwen Brooks calls on us to be. And like Harriet Tubman, we must reject individual escape, turn around towards our people, confront our oppressor and oppression and dare continue the difficult and demanding work and struggle to achieve freedom, justice, peace and other goods in and for the world.

Reconcieving Our New Year Resolution: Remembering Our Work in the World
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Reconcieving Our New Year Resolution: Remembering Our Work in the World

Dr. Maulana KarengaDecember 26, 2019

This coming New Year will be the year 6260 on our oldest cal­endar, the ancient Egyp­tian calendar, the oldest calendar in the world. And we are the oldest people in the world, the elders of humanity. In­deed, we are builders of a Nile Valley civi­lization named Kemet that was once called the Light of the World, the Navel of the World and the Temple of the world. Therefore, be­fore we lose ourselves in the established order ritual of new-year-lite resolution-making on everything from loss of weight to giving less to the lotto, we might want to pause, remember and think deeply, and then make resolutions worthy of our weight and work in the history of the world. And this requires that in the midst of the diminished and distort­ed portrait of ourselves painted by the dominant society, we remember and rightly conceive of ourselves in more truth­ful, dignity-affirming and expansive ways.

Words of the Week – God’s Promises are Yes and Amen!
Religion

Words of the Week – God’s Promises are Yes and Amen!

Joshua Apparicio, Contributing WriterJanuary 16, 2019

Welcome to 2019, your best year yet! To all of the hard working young youth leaders, I would like to start off by encouraging you all to work diligently on your new year and what you’ve promised yourselves this year. I do remember when we were going through life’s unforgiving challenges, we read in Isaiah 40:31, “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” I especially liked this scripture because my understanding is that God can

Ask Dr. Jeanette Success On “The Way”: ‘I Am Powerful! I Give You Power!’
ASK DR. JEANETTE, SUCCESS ON THE WAYOpinion

Ask Dr. Jeanette Success On “The Way”: ‘I Am Powerful! I Give You Power!’

Dr. Jeanette ParkerDecember 20, 2018

So you might say, “Who are you to give power?” And I say, “Yes! I can give power.” “How?” We are empowered by words! Speak words and decree success. What is power? Well, it comes in different forms. Some people vent negativism, bad energy could be friends, relatives speak words of power which may not be inspiring words, but at the same time they may be words of truth inspirational, spoken in well meaning, but may not be heard; may be heard and twisted into believing that the words are not truthful but meant to be demeaning.