
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…
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 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…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the words our honored ancestors used to describe our “rising in radiance”, the world encompassing embrace and celebration of Kwanzaa by African peoples around…