By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the words our honored ancestors used to describe our “rising in radiance”, the world encompassing embrace and celebration of Kwanzaa by African peoples around…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a revisiting of an early and ongoing conversation about the shared meaning of Kwanzaa, its particular cultural message to African people, and its…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This year and each year, the coming of Kwanzaa causes us to come together in celebration, remembrance, reflection and recommitment. And it also urges us…
Part II. By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Nana Gwen Brooks was an internationally recognized and respected poet, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize recipient when she decided to join the Black…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — By the time this column is read, there will be evidence of a winner of this presidential election, even if, as expected, it is denied…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — No one can miss or mistake the deep and insistent anxiety, apprehension and righteous anger that precede and mark this coming presidential election. For its…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Although clearly the Million Man March was the central event on October 16, 1995, it is important that we remember and always pay rightful homage…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of our and other ongoing struggles for liberation, freedom, justice and other indispensable and indivisible goods in the world, I turn constantly…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The most recent fabricated, false and fear-mongering ranting by Trump, Vance and various other MAGA advocates and allies, claiming Haitian immigrants are eating White peoples…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Fifty-nine years and 236 seasons ago, we met together to build an organization, actualize an idea and pursue a revolutionary initiative we named the Organization…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Righteously refusing to be silenced and defiantly demanding a seat at the table, Nana Fannie Lou Hamer speaking and lobbying for justice at the Democratic…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — We are again in the midst of August, a special month of commemoration and celebration of a tradition of righteous and relentless struggle essential to…