Maulana Karenga
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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.
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I have been blessed to see my work flourish. Many people in history - Marcus Garvey, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X - never lived to see their work flourish.
"The Man Who Invented Kwanzaa" in Ebony (January 1998)
We have to distinguish between riots and revolts.… Riots are illegal.
Black Power Conference (July 1967), quoted in How Newark Became Newark (2009) by Brad Tuttle
Kwanzaa was conceived, created and introduced to the African community as an audacious act of self-determination.
Annual Kwanzaa Message (2009) "Principles and Practices of Kwanzaa: Repairing and Renewing the World."
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