By Dr. Maulana Karenga — April 4th is Nana Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day of Sacrifice, the day of his assassination and martyrdom. And we stress his awesome sacrifice, his…
Commentary, articles and essays written by Dr. Maulana Karenga
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — April 4th is Nana Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day of Sacrifice, the day of his assassination and martyrdom. And we stress his awesome sacrifice, his…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The quest for reparatory justice for the Holocaust of enslavement and the colonial and empires’ life-crushing companion forms of oppression and their consequences and enduring…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we close out two months of commemoration and celebration of the history of our people, I reach back to retrieve and reaffirm thoughts on…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Mad Max Trump and Thunderdome Netanyahu have taken the world to war again, offering us a pre-apocalyptic picture of apprehensions, vulnerabilities, catastrophes and consequences to…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In remembrance, retrieval and reaffirmation. Clearly, in this important month and historical moment of celebrating Black History through remembrance and recommitment to ever-deeper study and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The essential recommendation of close reading and critical reflection concerning history is one of those kinds of advice which is regularly given but infrequently followed….
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is, indeed, in this historic moment, a specter, an evil spirit and pernicious presence haunting, hunting and wreaking havoc on the world. And it…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — To make even partial sense out of the Orwellian world and Madhatter would-be wonderland minus Alice which Trump and his MAGA Trumpeteers seek to establish…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On Saturday, January 3, the American government launched an unprovoked, unjustifiable and illegal attack on the sovereign country of Venezuela, killed at least 80 people,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — All around the world and on every inhabited continent in the world, during the week of December 26-January 1, African peoples will celebrate the pan-African…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Retrieving history and narrative in the most reflective and sensitive ways, I want to share again thoughts about celebrating Thanksgiving Day. Indeed, it is good…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On Monday of this week, the Department of Africana Studies and the College of Liberal Arts at CSULB co-sponsored a retirement celebration for me, for…