Habari Gani? (What’s the news of the day?) Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Dagi knot – a Pan African symbol of unity found in several African cultures, i.e., Yoruba, Hausa, Bushongo, etc. Source: The Official Kwanzaa Website A Quick Kwanzaa FAQ Q. What is Kwanzaa? […]
Calls For Investigations Grow As Two New Hangings of Men Of Color Surface (June 16)Two new suspicious incidents have come to public attention in the wake of the hanging deaths of two Black men in California and are sparking calls for a thorough investigation. In New York City, Bronx resident Dominique Alexander, 27, was found […]
Last week, a ceremony honoring the death of George Floyd was held at the W.E.B Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in the city of Accra. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, a local politician and member of Parliament, spoke out after the racism in the United States to offer solidarity with African Americans abroad, offering them […]
A new report from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that 41% of Black-owned small businesses have been lost due widespread shutdowns brought on by the coronavirus crisis. MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez speaks with Connie Evans, the President and CEO of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, about what changes can be made at the federal […]
The record of that meeting is only one piece of evidence in an unexamined history that is sure to make Americans cringe. Throughout the early 1930s, the years of the making of the Nuremberg Laws, Nazi policymakers looked to US law for inspiration. Hitler himself, in Mein Kampf (1925), described the US as ‘the one state’ […]
A people’s culture; its traditions, religion and common history, defines the possibilities for that people. On the African continent as in the “Americas”, Black culture struggles still to overcome the “twin holocausts” of Slavery and Europe’s 19th century “dismemberment” of the African continent. Both slavery and Europe’s imperialism: suppressed, persecuted and sought to destroy Black […]
In war, the “vanguard” are the advance troops who are first to engage an enemy. They are most times the best trained and equipped fighters and are accountable for establishing the character of the conflict. In political or social movements there is also a “vanguard”. They are the tacticians, spokesmen, exemplars and heroes to their […]
There are three key areas of a people’s existence that I feel most shapes their character and their destiny: One, their religious traditions. Two, their political institutions and three, their culture. Of the three, culture is the most inclusive, consisting of a great many components, including the religious and political. The reason that I call […]
To Those Opposed to Kwanzaa, Which of the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principals) do you object to? What about the ritualization of a people’s collective goals and objectives do you find offensive? Don’t talk to me about Ron Karenga. My sisters hung out with “Ron” back in the days he drove that old brown van. That […]
