We stress culture because it gives identity, purpose and di… - Maulana Karenga

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We stress culture because it gives identity, purpose and direction. It tells us who we are, what we must do, and how we can do it.

Maulana Karenga

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Maulana Karenga (born on 14 July 1941) is a black nationalist and pan-African scholar and activist. In the 1960s he established the cultural organization US, invented the Kwanzaa celebration, and introduced the Kawaida system of Afrocentric moral philosophy. After serving a prison sentence for felony assault in the early 1970s, he earned two doctorates and became the Africana Studies department chair at the California State University, Long Beach.

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Birth Name: Ronald McKinley Everett

Alternative Names: Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga • Ron Karenga

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