By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context of our time. In the midst of our…
January 6, 2025 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Dr. Maulana Karenga, Creator of the Pan African Cultural Holiday Kwanzaa and the…
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…
Friday, October 11, 2024, 3:30PM PST, 5:30PM CST, 6:30PM EST — “Over 30 organizations participating with opening statements from movement elders”
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…