celebration of freedom Archives

San Diego, CA, USA, May 27, 2016: Man holding Black Lives Matter sign as part of a protest outside a Donald Trump campaign rally in downtown San Diego. Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA.

Juneteenth and President Trump

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Juneteenth is a day for African Americans in this nation to connect to their ancestry. It honors the end of slavery in the...

Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Essays on Struggle: Position and Analysis, www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org, www.MaulanaKarenga.org; www.AfricanAmericanCulturalCenter-LA.org; www.Us-Organization.org.

Black History3 years ago

OP-ED: “Kwanzaa, Freedom, Justice and Peace: Principles and Practices For A New World”

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Kwanzaa was conceived and born in transformative struggles of the Black Freedom Movement. and was also shaped by that defining decade of fierce...