By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is in the month of Insurgent August that Nana Marcus Garvey came into being and started on his historic journey to become the greatly…
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 — It is in the month of Insurgent August that Nana Marcus Garvey came into being and started on his historic journey to become the greatly…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is my standard column written to commemorate the Watts Revolt and to pay rightful homage to those who lost, gave and risked their lives…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — By every measure and means of rational and relevant consideration, calculation and comprehension, August is a month of major historical markers and milestones for us…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In righteously remembering and retrieving the enduring legacy of Nana Ida B. Wells- Barnett, we practice the morality of remembrance, honoring a womanist warrior who…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whatever other conclusions we might come to after all the fireworks, fanfare, flag waving, and the White House carnival barker’s big white tent and low-life…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Closing out this month of celebrating Black Music, I would like to do some sankofa sharing of some essential sensitivities and thoughts about the meaning…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The moral, social and environmental problematic that AI and digital culture pose for us as human beings and for the earth and our relationship with…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of the everyday madness, the extreme cruelty, the vulgarness and viciousness, and the greed, grift, graft and gangsterism in high and low…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The month of May is the month of Haji Malcolm X and also the month of African Liberation Day (ALD), and it brings with it…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In celebrating Haji Malcolm X ‘s coming into being, May 19, I want to share readings from my coming book, The Liberation Ethics of Haji…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As I think lovingly and appreciatively of my mother on this coming Mother’s Day and reflect on this past May Day, I remember that it…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — One of the greatest challenges of our times in the small and larger circles of our lives is to be self-consciously consistent in our moral…