By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Again, the celebration of Earth Day this month gives us space and time to focus on our awesome responsibility for the natural world and all…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of remembering, reading and raising up the work and life of August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), arguably the most successful…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we witness and work and struggle to end the Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinian people, the century-old brutal intervention and occupation of Haiti,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — The earliest discourse on resurrection from the dead, judgment after death and reward of eternal life for the righteous comes from Africa, from ancient Egypt,…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the midst of the current state of the world with all its faces and forces of genocide, injustice, evil and oppression, I reach back…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — It is a wide-spread shared conception that our future is under surveillance and siege, that our present is problematized by big tech, artificial intelligence, and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Emerging and emergent conversations about our future as a people conducted in the community and academy in the midst of ever evolving technology, AI and…
Dr. Maulana Karenga — When Nana Haji Malcolm X taught and stressed the foundational importance of the critical study of history, he was responding not only to the ongoing need…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — There is, as always, a timeless library of life experiences and life lessons that inform and instruct us on the significance and centrality of this…
Practicing art as centering, freedom and resistance: Retrieving some essentials of a Black aesthetic
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — As we engage the 2024 ASALH Black History Theme: “African Americans and the Arts”, it is important to approach it as a celebration, invitation and…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of invited meditation, making resolutions and deep reflection about ourselves and the state of things in the world, I turn to the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — No one can rationally doubt or reasonably deny the singular, yet interrelated moral, legal, political and historical importance of South Africa’s initiative and case brought…