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…
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 — 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 — 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…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a sankofa retrieval of memory and message from the sacred text, Odu Ifa, intentionally offered for insight and inspiration in these difficult, dangerous…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we celebrate Us-On-Earth Day again this year, I want to raise again the urgent and ongoing need for us to understand this day and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — April 4th is Nana Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day of Sacrifice, the day of his assassination and martyrdom. And we stress his awesome sacrifice, his…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The quest for reparatory justice for the Holocaust of enslavement and the colonial and empires’ life-crushing companion forms of oppression and their consequences and enduring…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we close out two months of commemoration and celebration of the history of our people, I reach back to retrieve and reaffirm thoughts on…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Mad Max Trump and Thunderdome Netanyahu have taken the world to war again, offering us a pre-apocalyptic picture of apprehensions, vulnerabilities, catastrophes and consequences to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In remembrance, retrieval and reaffirmation. Clearly, in this important month and historical moment of celebrating Black History through remembrance and recommitment to ever-deeper study and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The essential recommendation of close reading and critical reflection concerning history is one of those kinds of advice which is regularly given but infrequently followed….
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is, indeed, in this historic moment, a specter, an evil spirit and pernicious presence haunting, hunting and wreaking havoc on the world. And it…