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By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and allies, claiming Haitian immigrants are eating White peoples…
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 most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and allies, claiming Haitian immigrants are eating White peoples…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Fifty-nine years and 236 seasons ago, we met together to build an organization, actualize an idea and pursue a revolutionary initiative we named the Organization…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Righteously refusing to be silenced and defiantly demanding a seat at the table, Nana Fannie Lou Hamer speaking and lobbying for justice at the Democratic…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — We are again in the midst of August, a special month of commemoration and celebration of a tradition of righteous and relentless struggle essential to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On this the centennial anniversary and celebration of the coming into being of Nana James Baldwin (August 2, 1924), beloved writer and teacher of the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is good to see the Kamala campaign centering on joy in the struggle to defeat those who would outlaw love, laughter and learning; arrest…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — We are at a critical historical moment of the amassing, movement and meeting of progressive forces in this country to protect the people from Trumpian…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is a huge and understandable sigh and feeling of relief that President Joe Biden has decided not to run for president again and most likely…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — As the country and the world experiences and resists the rise and expansion of rightist forces and their attempts to limit and deny freedom and justice,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we mark the Fourth of July and treat an epidemic of anxiety about the outcome of November 5th, we would be well served by…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — The celebration of Juneteenth nationally took a new turn in its bid to become a nationally recognized Black holiday last year in the context of the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Our people came into being in the midst of righteous and relentless liberating struggle, and there is a radical history to know and honor here….