
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…
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 — 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…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is, as always, a timeless library of life experiences and life lessons that inform and instruct us on the significance and centrality of this…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we engage the 2024 ASALH Black History Theme: “African Americans and the Arts”, it is important to approach it as a celebration, invitation and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of invited meditation, making resolutions and deep reflection about ourselves and the state of things in the world, I turn to the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — No one can rationally doubt or reasonably deny the singular, yet interrelated moral, legal, political and historical importance of South Africa’s initiative and case brought…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of our rightful concern and support for the many oppressed and struggling peoples of the world, the people of Haiti must also…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Again, this year we wish for Africans everywhere throughout the world African community “Heri za Kwanzaa. Happy Kwanzaa”. And we bring and send greetings of…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Above all, gift-giving is the sharing of good, and practiced rightly, it becomes not only a ritual of celebration, but also a lesson and a…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — We must never forget and do not forget the oppression and righteous resistance of other oppressed and suffering peoples of the world, the Haitian people,…