
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this critical moment of warmongering and warmaking and the awesome waste of lives and of needed resources for life and development in this country…
Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, California State University-Long Beach; Executive Director, African American Cultural Center (Us); Creator of Kwanzaa; and author of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture, The Message and Meaning of Kwanzaa: Bringing Good Into the World and Essays on Struggle: Position and Analysis, ww.AfricanAmericanCulturalCenter-LA.org; www.OfficialKwanzaaWebsite.org; www.MaulanaKarenga.org.
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this critical moment of warmongering and warmaking and the awesome waste of lives and of needed resources for life and development in this country…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of our community conversations and participation in the urgent and ever-widening resistance to the terrorizing, disruptive and devastating ICE raids by the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Here, as Father’s Day approaches, I am retrieving one of the many portraits of our father I continually carry in my heart and mind and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The murder and martyrdom of Nana George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and our 5th anniversary commemorations to mark the taking and legacy of his…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is only right, good and reflective of the high homage we owe and offer her, that in this Black History Month II – Women…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this Black History Month II: Women Focus, I reach back to retrieve and share a hallowed homage to my mother, our mother, righteous representative…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. As we move from February, the month of the martyrdom of Nana Haji Malcolm X and into the month of March, I want…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This February 21, 2025, marks the 60th Anniversary of the assassination and martyrdom of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Nana Min. Malcolm X, noble and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. Certainly, no one can honestly doubt, accurately deny or innocently dismiss the fact that we are living in treacherous and trying times. When…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. It is important to note that the legacy and lessons we speak of here are not only for us and the world, but…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. In celebrating this the 221st anniversary of the world transformative liberation struggle and Revolution of the Haitian People, we understandably and unavoidably focus…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context of our time. In the midst of our…