Dr. Maulana Karenga

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…

  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…

  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…

  In the Sixties and even for a short time afterward, Blackness was conceived and engaged as a very serious and sacred thing. It was serious because it dealt with…

      The passing of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (1935-2016) calls on us to pause and pay rightful homage to her—this accomplished and committed psychiatrist, activist-intellectual, author, way-opener and…

Dr. Maulana Karenga
 It is an irony and tragedy of history that as we come into this season of celebration of Christmas and Kwanzaa and of calling for peace and…