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…
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 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…
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…