Part 1. When we remember and recount the sacred narrative of Nat Turner, we must remember also the Kawaida fundamental teaching that our oppressor cannot be our teacher, especially about…
Although we of Us supported the Justice or Else! 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March and I had participated in the early planning and organizing initiatives and had been…
This is a careful Kawaida reading of some of the essential teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad in rightful remembrance and respect of his life and work in the wilderness…
It is a fundamental and timeless teaching in our sacred text, the Husia, that we are obligated “to bear witness to truth and set the scales of justice in their…
Dr. Maulana Karenga This month of August, full of commemorations, comes always with special meaning, for it is a central source and reference point for our history of righteous resistance…
Part 1. Clearly, we, as a people, are in the midst of a deep social crisis, one not only in terms of the conditions of our community, but also in…
Second in a series for the 50th Anniversary Nguzo Saba 2015 Conference (September 24-27), celebrating the founding of our organization Us and the introduction of the Nguzo Saba (The Seven…
Los Angeles Sentinel, Dr. Maulana Karenga Surely, the celebration or rather observation of the 4th of July after Charleston must have a new meaning and a new message about where…
Another year has passed, Limbiko, and come and gone again is the special day and month, May 3rd, when your mother and father brought you into being and you…
Dr. Maulana Karenga This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization Us and the introduction of the Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, and Kawaida philosophy…
Dr. Maulana Karenga Part I. On April 9, Tiamoyo and I had returned to Temple University where I conducted an Indaba (conversation and council) with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students…
The deep thinking of our ancestors about ethical issues of being human in the world is nowhere more evident or important than the text in the Book of Vindication (or…