"The second principle of the Nguzo Saba is Kujichagulia (Self-Determination). This too expresses itself as both commitment and practice. It demands that we as an African people define, defend and develop ourselves instead of allowing or encouraging others to do this. It requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own image and interest. And it is a call to recover and speak our own special cultural truth to the world and make our own unique contribution to the forward flow of human history." -- Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa Founder Join our Kwanzaa Celebration as...

"The second principle of the Nguzo Saba is Kujichagulia (Self-Determination). This too expresses itself as both commitment and practice. It demands that we as an African people define, defend and develop ourselves instead of allowing or encouraging others to do this. It requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own image and interest. And it is a call to recover and speak our own special cultural truth to the world and make our own unique contribution to the forward flow of human history." -- Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa Founder Join our Kwanzaa Celebration as...

"The second principle of the Nguzo Saba is Kujichagulia (Self-Determination). This too expresses itself as both commitment and practice. It demands that we as an African people define, defend and develop ourselves instead of allowing or encouraging others to do this. It requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own image and interest. And it is a call to recover and speak our own special cultural truth to the world and make our own unique contribution to the forward flow of human history." -- Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa Founder Join our Kwanzaa Celebration as...

Deborah talks about how our past connects us to our future.  Join a lively interactive session of storytelling.

Be a part of history! We are collecting memorabilia from 54 years of the Martin Luther King Jr. March. Bring your items from the marches and we will record your March stories.

Just in time for what would have been Muhammad Ali’s 80th birthday, KLRN invites you to join local community leaders for a discussion on Ali’s legacy, his activism, and how he used his platform to speak out against social issues like racial injustice and poverty. Hear how he inspired local members of the community to do the same. Q&A to follow. In collaboration with: Go Public Moderator: Mr. Bobby Blount, Chair, Go Public Panelists: Mr. Robert Harris – Principal Harlan High School Mrs. Deborah Jarmon – San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) Dr. Gary Bates – Superintendent...

Trinity University presents its 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker, Anneliese M. Bruner, in collaboration with Trinity University Press, the TU Student Diversity and Inclusion Office, the San Antonio Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, and the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum. Due to COVID-19 concerns, her presentation will be live-streamed at 7 p.m., Thursday, January 20, on Trinity’s Tiger Network. The lecture is free and can be viewed here trinity.edu/live. Anneliese M. Bruner is the great granddaughter of Tulsa race massacre survivor and author Mary E. Jones Parrish, whose contemporaneous eyewitness account, The Nation Must...