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 — 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 — 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,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Surely in these times in which there is complicit silence and active support for the radical evil of genocide waged through war by Israel and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the current context there is overwhelming support for Israel and its declaration of total war on Gaza, Palestine and its vow to destroy the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is Nana Fannie Lou Hamer who reaffirmed the sacred teachings of our other honored ancestors’ emphasis on the moral obligation to remember when she…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of our founding 58 years or 232 seasons ago, it is important to reaffirm that our organization, Us, from its inception, has…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This year and month marks the 58th anniversary of the founding of our organization Us, September 7, 1965, 58 years and 232 seasons of righteous…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — At this hour of urgency and needed liberative initiatives in African and human history, and in this month, Black August, the site and source of…
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