
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. Nana Harriet Tubman possessed not only a hearing heart developed and defined by rightful attentiveness, empathetic understanding and appropriate action as requested 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 — Part 2. Nana Harriet Tubman possessed not only a hearing heart developed and defined by rightful attentiveness, empathetic understanding and appropriate action as requested and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. This is in homage to Nana Harriet Tubman: African woman, Black and beautiful woman; fierce and fearless freedom fighter; womanist warrior for all…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Author’s Note: This is my standard article in celebration of Black History Month II: Women Focus. This is the month for celebrating the miracles and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is the sacred teaching of our honored foremother, Nana Fannie Lou Hamer, that there are two things we all should care about “never to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, raising up and reflecting on our awesome making and movement through history, it is good to remind our ourselves, society…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — The savage murder and mayhem imposed and inflicted on yet another Black man, a Black person, Tyre Nichols, on his family and community and on Black…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Author’s Note: As we come to the end of January and recommit ourselves to practices of good in and for the world, the pursuit and…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — One of the most critical tasks of our times is to reaffirm, deepen and expand our culture of struggle as a people, with its rich talkings…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Kwanzaa is a time of celebration, remembrance, reflection and recommitment. It requires these practices throughout the holiday. But the last day of Kwanzaa is dedicated…
Annual Founder’s Kwanzaa Message By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Heri za Kwanzaa. Happy Kwanzaa to African people everywhere throughout the world African community. And we share these greetings also with…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we move once again into the month of December and the season of celebration of the good at the year’s end, Kwanzaa will again…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — (Author’s note: This is a revisiting of an earlier article that speaks not so much to history repeating itself, but of different peoples repeating their…