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By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is good and right to rebel and revolt against unfreedom and morally imperative to resist evil, injustice and oppression wherever we find it, in…
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 — It is good and right to rebel and revolt against unfreedom and morally imperative to resist evil, injustice and oppression wherever we find it, in…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Continuing to uplift the life and liberating model and mirror Nana Haji Malcolm offers us in this the month of his coming-into-being, I want to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Continuing our conversation with Haji Malcolm in this his birth month of May, I want to also pay homage to a central source of his…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we move into May, the month of Nana Haji Malcolm’s coming into being and the imminent completion of my extensive original work, The Liberation…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Again, the celebration of Earth Day this month gives us space and time to focus on our awesome responsibility for the natural world and all…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, reading and raising up the work and life of August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), arguably the most successful…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we witness and work and struggle to end the Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people, the century-old brutal intervention and occupation of Haiti,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The earliest discourse on resurrection from the dead, judgment after death and reward of eternal life for the righteous comes from Africa, from ancient Egypt,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of the current state of the world with all its faces and forces of genocide, injustice, evil and oppression, I reach back…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a wide-spread shared conception that our future is under surveillance and siege, that our present is problematized by big tech, artificial intelligence, and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Emerging and emergent conversations about our future as a people conducted in the community and academy in the midst of ever evolving technology, AI and…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — When Nana Haji Malcolm X taught and stressed the foundational importance of the critical study of history, he was responding not only to the ongoing need…