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Havoc in the House, Douglass at the Door: July 4th, November 5th and Unavoidable Struggle
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Havoc in the House, Douglass at the Door: July 4th, November 5th and Unavoidable Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 3, 2024

Havoc in the House, Douglass at the Door: July 4th, November 5th and Unavoidable Struggle As we mark the Fourth of July and treat an epidemic of anxiety about the outcome of November 5th, we would be well served by recognizing that annual hard knock and powerful presence at the door of the honored abolitionist, freedom fighter and most insightful activist intellectual, Nana Frederick Douglass. For by every metric of good sense and every measure of a good life, there is havoc in this house called America. It is a very dangerous and self-destructive disorder of rampant conflict, varied oppression,

Sharing Joys of June With Limbiko: Building Bridges of Memory That Sustain Us 
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Sharing Joys of June With Limbiko: Building Bridges of Memory That Sustain Us 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJune 26, 2024

Again, in the sacred tradition of our ancestors of ancient Egypt of writing letters to loved ones who have made transition and ascension, I reach out to you in writing in this the month of your lying down in peace and rising up in radiance in the heavens. It is one of those bridges of memory we build that supports and sustains us in dealing with the awesome ache of your absence and the persistent longing for your presence.  

The Music and Magic of Blackness: The Centering and Sustaining Beauty of Soul 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

The Music and Magic of Blackness: The Centering and Sustaining Beauty of Soul 

June 19, 2024

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. It is good to sing and celebrate ourselves, to dance in honor of the divine spark and specialness within each of us, and to rejoice in the midst of the sacred music we together make in the many ways we love, work and struggle to do and share good in the world.    But our celebrations must always be rooted in and reflective of our own agency, our own image and own interests. And so,

Columbia, Morehouse and the Morality of Resistance: Continuing Struggle, Keeping Faith and Holding the Line 
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Columbia, Morehouse and the Morality of Resistance: Continuing Struggle, Keeping Faith and Holding the Line 

Rhonda Smith, Special to California Black Media PartnersMay 22, 2024

It is good and right to rebel and revolt against unfreedom and morally imperative to resist evil, injustice and oppression wherever we find it, in this country and around the world. And it is good to know our past and honor it; to engage the present and improve it; and to imagine a whole new future and forge it in the most ethical, effective and expansive ways. 

Haji Malcolm and the Meaning of Manhood: Some Essential Moral and Social Conceptions 
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Haji Malcolm and the Meaning of Manhood: Some Essential Moral and Social Conceptions 

May 15, 2024

Continuing to uplift the life and liberating model and mirror Nana Haji Malcolm offers us in this the month of his coming-into-being, I want to draw again from ideas and excerpts from my coming major work, “The Liberation Ethics of Haji Malcolm X, Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.”   And I want to focus on the issue of manhood, a central concern in his life, thought and liberating practice. Clearly, one of the major points of departure for critically discussing and discerning Haji Malcolm’s understanding and engagement with the issue of manhood and Black people’s conception of his manhood

Césaire, Colonialism and the Genocidal War in Palestine: Concerning Israel, the U.S., Europe and Hitlerian Havoc 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Césaire, Colonialism and the Genocidal War in Palestine: Concerning Israel, the U.S., Europe and Hitlerian Havoc 

Dr. Maulana KarengaApril 10, 2024

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, the U.S. and Europe complicity and culpability in these horrors, and the savage oppressions of various kinds across the globe, a critical look at history is morally, intellectually, and politically imperative.  

Remembering Paul Robeson in Righteous Resistance: Freedom Fighting for Haiti, Palestine and Ourselves 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Remembering Paul Robeson in Righteous Resistance: Freedom Fighting for Haiti, Palestine and Ourselves 

Dr. Maulana KarengaApril 3, 2024

At the center of all our commemoration and celebration of the magnificent and meaningful life and legacy of Nana Paul Robeson in this month of his coming-into-being, April 9th, must always be a recognition and raising up of his deep and defiant dedication to the freedom of African peoples and all the peoples of the world.   A world-renowned freedom fighter and soldier for all seasons, he reaffirmed that he “saw no reason why my convictions should change with the weather” or for “promise of gain (or) threat of loss.” Thus, he stood as Nana Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune described him,

Sustainers and Shapers of the World: A Classical African Conception of Womanhood  
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Sustainers and Shapers of the World: A Classical African Conception of Womanhood  

Dr. Maulana KarengaMarch 20, 2024

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 in the practice of sankofa to retrieve and bring forth the timeless ancient ethical wisdom of our honored ancestors. And I do this realizing the awesome unequal suffering of women and children in this month and moment of history and in honor of their defiant and radical refusal to be defeated, to be resigned in despair or to cease their resistance in opposition to oppression and in affirmation of their dignity, humanity and indispensable role

Black People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Resisting the Progressive Artificiality of Human Life 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Black People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Resisting the Progressive Artificiality of Human Life 

Dr. Maulana KarengaMarch 13, 2024

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 continuing cultural wars. These toxic and toll-taking processes strive to rewrite and erase our history and offer us a false freedom instead of liberation; devices and gadgets instead of justice; and narrow notions of progress privileging the ruling racial elite instead of offering a shared inclusive good for everyone.  

Lifting and Holding Up Heaven: Women’s and Men’s Work in the World 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Lifting and Holding Up Heaven: Women’s and Men’s Work in the World 

March 7, 2024

This is a sankofa retrieval, resharing and reaffirming of the ancient African ethical imperative of “lifting and holding up heaven,” ensuring human good and the well-being of the world as a joint Ujima project and practice of women and men.   It is a fundamental tenet of Kawaida philosophy that practice proves and makes possible everything, that is to say, practice brings it into being, makes it real, relevant and worthy of the name and quality it claims, whether it is love or life, parenting or peace, teaching or learning, art or ethics, science, religion or righteous resistance.   And so, in

Meanings, Mapping and Making History: The Significance and Centrality of Struggle 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Meanings, Mapping and Making History: The Significance and Centrality of Struggle 

Dr. Maulana KarengaFebruary 21, 2024

It is Haji Malcolm, Maulana (Master Teacher) and constant soldier, who taught not only the centrality and indispensability of knowing history, but also the urgent imperative to map out its meaning and course and make it consciously and conscientiously. Indeed, he said, “We must recapture our heritage (history) and our identity if we are to ever liberate ourselves from the bonds of white supremacy.”  

Being Steadfast and Strong in Life and Struggle: Reflecting the Foundation, Modelling the Mountain 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Being Steadfast and Strong in Life and Struggle: Reflecting the Foundation, Modelling the Mountain 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 25, 2024

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 teachings of our honored ancestors, founded especially in our sacred texts, the Husia and the Odu Ifa. And I always find in them a rich, ever ready and invaluable source for constant grounding, and for asking questions and seeking answers to the fundamental issues that confront African peoples and the world.  

Supporting South Africa’s Holding Israel Accountable: Rightfully Resisting Acts and Justifications of Genocide 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Supporting South Africa’s Holding Israel Accountable: Rightfully Resisting Acts and Justifications of Genocide 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 18, 2024

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 to hold Israel accountable for genocide against the people of Gaza, Palestine before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Netherlands.