Dr. Maulana Karenga

This is the month when our minds and hearts turn toward Haiti in focused homage to the Haitian people, who through their liberation struggle carved out of the rugged rock and horror of the Holocaust of enslavement a special space for African and human freedom in the world.

The questioning of Kwanzaa comes with each season of its celebration as a kind of background noise and verbal nonsense, noted for its racialized rancor and irrationality rather than its relevance and for its strange preoccupation with Kwanzaa’s value and durability while annually announcing its imminent death.

Now, at the beginning of this the year of our people 6252, let us again, in the tradition of our ancestors, wish for African people everywhere, as well as all the peoples of the world: blessings without number and all good things without end.

The savage and senseless massacre of 26 people, 20 children and 6 adults, at an elementary school in Connecticut has once again forced the country to face a random rage and murderous rampage…

The celebration and season of Kwanzaa is a deeply meaningful and special time of remembrance, reflection and recommitment for us as a people throughout the world African community.

While an emerging new coalition worked hard for the re-election of Pres. Obama on a national level against the big-money funded madness of the Right…

The marking of the passing of Ms. Rosa Parks, 12 years ago last month, immediately brings to mind the long, hard and heroic struggle waged by African people to expand the realm of freedom and justice in this country as well as the people, great and small, who made it possible.

As others visit the President, hold news conferences, send e-mail, and request recognition and action on their demands as supporters in the recent re-election, no one has greater claim and urgency than we do.

If you were fortunate enough to have lived and loved in the 60s and were blessed to have heard Jammin’ Jai Rich (James Roy Richardson, 1934-2012)…

There is always a great sense of loss at the passing of a generational giant, a tall- standing and steadfast leader whose long shadow offered us protective shade and whose lengthy strides and enormous efforts hurried us toward victory in our ongoing struggle for good in the world.

In the midst of the thick fog and fantasy of this imaginary post-racial era, it might seem racially outrageous and socially scandalous…