Improving the conditions and capacities for life By Maulana Karenga — By any sane and serious reasoning, measure and meaning, these are bleak, unBlack, challenging and taxing times for this…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The recent revelation of the racist rant, irrational reasoning and inequitable reordering of the political map of Los Angeles by a group of Latina/o city…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In 1987, Tiamoyo and I traveled to London where on October 1st , I gave the inaugural lecture at County Hall for the establishment of…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — This column, on this our 57th anniversary and in this the 228th exacting season of our organization Us’ righteous and relentless struggle, is dedicated to Ngao…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On this the 57th year and 228th season of our coming into being as an organization, it is morally imperative and historically necessary to pay…
By Maulana Karenga — It is a beautiful memory and uplifting thought to realize our organization Us was conceived in the fiery and formative womb of the August 1965 Revolt…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Since the Sixties, we of Us have understood, engaged and embraced Blackness as a very serious and sacred way of being and becoming in the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we celebrate and commemorate this month of revolution and resistance, we call Black August, we of necessity pay rightful and special homage to the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is my standard column written to commemorate the Watts Revolt and to pay rightful homage to those who lost, gave and risked their lives…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Certainly, practicing the morality of remembrance, we cannot pass the month of July without paying rightful homage to our foremother, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, born…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 2. My interest in and embrace of Kiswahili as a pan-African language of choice raised questions of how best to communicate this choice and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Part 1. The rapid rise of the Swahili language to global reach and significance reflected in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)…