
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On this the 57th year and 228th season of our coming into being as an organization, it is morally imperative and historically necessary to pay…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On this the 57th year and 228th season of our coming into being as an organization, it is morally imperative and historically necessary to pay…
By Maulana Karenga — It is a beautiful memory and uplifting thought to realize our organization Us was conceived in the fiery and formative womb of the August 1965 Revolt…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Since the Sixties, we of Us have understood, engaged and embraced Blackness as a very serious and sacred way of being and becoming in the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we celebrate and commemorate this month of revolution and resistance, we call Black August, we of necessity pay rightful and special homage to the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is my standard column written to commemorate the Watts Revolt and to pay rightful homage to those who lost, gave and risked their lives…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Certainly, practicing the morality of remembrance, we cannot pass the month of July without paying rightful homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. My interest in and embrace of Kiswahili as a pan-African language of choice raised questions of how best to communicate this choice and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. The rapid rise of the Swahili language to global reach and significance reflected in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Nana Frantz Fanon (July 20,1925–December 6, 1961), noble ancestor and teacher of the righteous, radical and transformative word, believed in Africa’s capacity to repair, raise…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In our long, difficult, dangerous and demanding struggles to liberate ourselves as African peoples, to regain our freedom we had at birth and enjoyed for…
This is Black Music Month and we share again these sensitivities, thoughts and practice of Blackness as music and magic at the highest and deepest level. By Dr. Maulana Karenga…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — America is in crisis, having become `a society against itself, moving from massacre to massacre seemingly with a mad hatter’s moral compass and a woefully…