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…
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 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…
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…