We cannot move through or pass the month of July without paying homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born July 10, 1875, laying down in peace and rising…
It is good to rebel; it is right to revolt; and it is morally compelling to confront and resist evil, injustice and oppression in all their forms wherever…
In his classic work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon laid out an extensive explanation of how an oppressed people, which does not fight fiercely and self-consciously against…
In the context and currents of human history, African liberation is an awesome ongoing historical project and a living practice of daily life. It is that long, hard…
There is no easy way or walk to freedom; no shortcuts to justice; no quick fix for conceiving and constructing the good and sustainable society and world we all want…
There is not a day that dawns that I do not read, remember and meditate on the sacred wisdom and mind-expanding insights of our ancestors—whether from my mother and…
In this era of political madness, mean-spiritedness, racial and religious scapegoating, continued and expanding police violence, obscene inequities in wealth and power, mass incarceration, extensive and needless poverty and proposals…
There is clearly something hollow and shamelessly hypocritical about the eleventh-hour expressions of surprise and alarm concerning the emergence, racist rant and savage and simple-minded solutions to national and…
The wide sweep of history ultimately finds its foundation in the lives of the people who make it. At the heart of the history we make are men…
Dr. Maulana Karenga Every people must have, put forth and pursue a clear and compelling vision of what it wants for itself, of what it defines and seeks as a…
Dr. Maulana Karenga As we mark this year’s Black History Month II: Women Focus, we will again pay rightful homage to Black women, African women everywhere—to the pioneers, heroines,…
The morality of remembrance is deeply and indelibly rooted in the culture and consciousness of African people. Indeed, it is expressed repeatedly in our ancient sacred texts and in…