
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is clearly so much to say in paying rightful homage to Nana Harry Belafonte in meaningfully marking his recent transition and ascension to sit…
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 — There is clearly so much to say in paying rightful homage to Nana Harry Belafonte in meaningfully marking his recent transition and ascension to sit…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whatever other lessons we glean from the targeting, accusation, indictment, trial, trashing and conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas and the dual response to all this by…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The expanding discourse of concern and needful resistance that has developed in the Black scholarly and engaged community around the planned USA tour of Dr….
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. Nana Harriet Tubman possessed not only a hearing heart developed and defined by rightful attentiveness, empathetic understanding and appropriate action as requested and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. This is in homage to Nana Harriet Tubman: African woman, Black and beautiful woman; fierce and fearless freedom fighter; womanist warrior for all…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Author’s Note: This is my standard article in celebration of Black History Month II: Women Focus. This is the month for celebrating the miracles and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is the sacred teaching of our honored foremother, Nana Fannie Lou Hamer, that there are two things we all should care about “never to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, raising up and reflecting on our awesome making and movement through history, it is good to remind our ourselves, society…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — The savage murder and mayhem imposed and inflicted on yet another Black man, a Black person, Tyre Nichols, on his family and community and on Black…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Author’s Note: As we come to the end of January and recommit ourselves to practices of good in and for the world, the pursuit and…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — One of the most critical tasks of our times is to reaffirm, deepen and expand our culture of struggle as a people, with its rich talkings…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Kwanzaa is a time of celebration, remembrance, reflection and recommitment. It requires these practices throughout the holiday. But the last day of Kwanzaa is dedicated…