
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…
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 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…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — Each August, this month of memory and marking of heightened struggle, we inevitably and unavoidably turn towards Haiti in rightful remembrance and homage. We rightfully remember,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The emerging age of the centrality of artificial intelligence in our lives unavoidably raises the question of the increasing imposed artificiality of our lives, not…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Let us pause and bow our heads and raise our hands in rightful remembrance and praise for our beloved sister, freedom fighter, pastor, professor and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Whether we discuss emancipation in June, independence in July, revolt and revolution in August, Kwanzaa and cultural and political liberation in December, or achievements against…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As Juneteenth, now federalized as Juneteenth National Independence Day, takes its place as the main focus among the many emancipation celebrations in this country, it…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — For us as a people, remembering and marking this the third anniversary of the public murder of Nana George Floyd under the color and camouflage…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On this African Liberation Day, in this year of our people 6263 (2023), as always, we of the African American Cultural Center (Us) send greetings…