Dr. Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa on the Legacy of Malcolm X
The Tight Rope
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5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week Professor and activist Dr. Maulana Karenga joins the professors to discuss his relationship with Malcolm X, his beliefs about what is necessary to develop a true sense of Black identity, and Kawaida-- his interpretation of ancient Egyptian ethical thought as a living tradition and a useful philosophical option for critical reflection on the urgent issues of our time.
Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach. He is also the creator of the pan-African cultural holiday Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles) and author of the authoritative text titled Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture.
An activist-scholar, he is chair of the organization Us and the National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and Executive director of the African American Cultural Center and the Kawaida Institute of Pan-African Studies; and also co-chair of the Black Community, Clergy and Labor Alliance, BCCLA. He is currently writing a major work on the social and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X titled The Liberation Ethics of Malcolm X: Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Dr. Marlani Karanga, and I'm on the tightrope. |
| 0:05.0 | We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment. |
| 0:13.0 | How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional moments of the color-blind ideology built? |
| 0:19.0 | No many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed |
| 0:25.6 | the best of their past. |
| 0:27.5 | What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given? |
| 0:31.7 | How do you envision possibilities? |
| 0:36.5 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:38.0 | Thanks for joining us on the tightrope, |
| 0:39.9 | where as you know, |
| 0:41.0 | we engage in a love and justice-infused dialogue |
| 0:44.2 | on ever increasingly tough issues. |
| 0:47.0 | And we are so grateful to have Dr. |
| 0:49.8 | Cornell West as our partner in crime. |
| 0:52.4 | My name is Tricia Rose. |
| 0:54.0 | And here is Dr. Cornel West with us. How are you doing, |
| 0:57.2 | Dr. West? I'm always blessed to be in dialogue with you, my dear sister. Oh, yes. Well, we have fantastic |
| 1:03.8 | times talking, but today we have a very special guest who I'm going to graciously and thrillingly |
| 1:10.2 | allow you to do one of your classic introductions of |
| 1:13.1 | turning it over to you, Dr. West. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, we are very especially blessed today because we have a living legend. |
| 1:22.5 | We have a towering intellectual. |
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