# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maulana-karenga
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:23:07.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maulana-karenga"
name: "Maulana Karenga"
slug: "maulana-karenga"
description: "Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author and professor of Africana studies, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa."
tagline: "American political activist (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maulana_Ndabezitha_Karenga_(Ronald_McKinley_Everett)_2003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-07-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.05
  momentum:             0.1410658307210031
  historical:           10.73468133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1687922/"
    handle:    "nm1687922"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.maulanakarenga.org/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%A7"
    title: "رون كارينغا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "رون كارينجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga"
    title: "Maulana Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga"
    title: "Maulana Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga"
    title: "Maulana Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Karenga"
    title: "Ron Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A6%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AC"
    title: "マウラナ・カレンガ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Karenga"
    title: "Ron Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Ron_Karenga"
    title: "Maulana Ron Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Karenga"
    title: "Ron Karenga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "مولانا کرینگا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3056728"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2489178"
    title: "Maulana Karenga"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump