
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…
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 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,…
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…