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)…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Nana Frantz Fanon (July 20,1925–December 6, 1961), noble ancestor and teacher of the righteous, radical and transformative word, believed in Africa’s capacity to repair, raise…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In our long, difficult, dangerous and demanding struggles to liberate ourselves as African peoples, to regain our freedom we had at birth and enjoyed for…
This is Black Music Month and we share again these sensitivities, thoughts and practice of Blackness as music and magic at the highest and deepest level. By Dr. Maulana Karenga…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — America is in crisis, having become `a society against itself, moving from massacre to massacre seemingly with a mad hatter’s moral compass and a woefully…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Yet again, we are confronted with another radically evil act of mass murder of our people, this time in Buffalo, New York, nine out of…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — On behalf of the African American Cultural Center (Us), we send greetings of solidarity and increased and continuing struggle to all African peoples throughout the…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is again a sankofa offering for rightful remembrance and reflection on our honored ancestor and beloved teacher, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. If we…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month of raising up, remembering and reflecting deeply on the life and legacy of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, I want to share…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In this month and historical moment of remembering and raising up Nana Malcolm X as a mirror and model for us and the world, we…