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Living a Life of Love and Struggle: Keeping the Faith and Holding the Line 
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Living a Life of Love and Struggle: Keeping the Faith and Holding the Line 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 4, 2024

As the edges of the years meet and merge and this year becomes the next New Year, we are asked by our honored ancestors and obligated by the urgencies of our times to pause and ponder the critical questions and issues confronting us, all African peoples, and the world. And we are to do this with parallel questioning and consideration of who we are, what we are to do because of who we are, and how we are to do what we must do because of who we are.

Righteous Reflection On Being African: A Kwanzaa Meditation 
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Righteous Reflection On Being African: A Kwanzaa Meditation 

Dr. Maulana KarengaDecember 14, 2023

Kwanzaa is a time of celebration, remembrance, reflection and recommitment. It requires these practices throughout the holiday. But the last day of Kwanzaa is dedicated to deep reflection, meditation on the meaning and measure of being African and how this is understood and asserted for good in the world in essential, uplifting and transformative ways.  

The Moral Savagery of Israel’s ‘Self-defense’: Racism, Neo-Colonialism and Collective Capital Punishment 
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The Moral Savagery of Israel’s ‘Self-defense’: Racism, Neo-Colonialism and Collective Capital Punishment 

November 9, 2023

We must never forget and do not forget the oppression and righteous resistance of other oppressed and suffering peoples of the world, the Haitian people, the Uigurs of China, the Rohingya of Myanmar, the Yemeni and others, and Africans almost everywhere, including us. But Palestine presents us, as a people, with a special moral challenge in this their hour of great and urgent need for support against the genocidal war being waged against them by the government of Israel.  

America’s and Israel’s Unfolding Genocide in Palestine: Complicity, Human Costs, King, Malcolm and Moral Considerations 
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America’s and Israel’s Unfolding Genocide in Palestine: Complicity, Human Costs, King, Malcolm and Moral Considerations 

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 26, 2023

The unfolding genocidal campaign by Israel against Palestine and the Palestinian people is clear to everyone. The Palestinian people and their representatives have appealed to the world to intervene and stop this genocidal war against them, pointing out the crimes against humanity being inflicted on them by Israel’s indiscriminate and sustained bombing and the denial and use of food, water, medicine, medical supplies, electricity and fuel as weapons of war.  

Us In the Interest of Our People: Centering the Many Seasons of Our Struggle 
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Us In the Interest of Our People: Centering the Many Seasons of Our Struggle 

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 28, 2023

As we of Us close out the month of our reflective commemoration and significant celebration of 58 years and 232 seasons of our culturally grounded and love-driven struggle together with and for our people, it is useful to discuss some of our key concepts and central motivations. Clearly, the name, concept and practice of being Us is central to how we understand and assert ourselves in the world.  

Remembering Our Massive Marches in Washington: Memory, Tradition, Demands and the Unfinished Struggle
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Remembering Our Massive Marches in Washington: Memory, Tradition, Demands and the Unfinished Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 31, 2023

As we commemorate the 1963 March on Washington, if we remember and reason rightly about our most massive marches in Washington, the threatened “thundering March” on Washington in 1941, the March on Washington in 1963, and the Million Man March in 1995, we realize that they have similar and interlocking lessons, aims and aspirations rooted in our centuries-old and ongoing righteous struggle for freedom as a people

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“Practicing Pan-Africanism with Nana Marcus Garvey: The Retrieval, Redemption and Liberation of Global Africa” 

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 24, 2023

At this hour of urgency and needed liberative initiatives in African and human history, and in this month, Black August, the site and source of such instructive memory and intensified movement, the name, life and legacy of Nana Marcus Garvey looms large as a model and mirror for our assessing and achieving our liberational goals in moving ahead in these rough and exacting times. 

Solidarity, Resistance and Messages From Montgomery: Some Signs and Sense of Things Possible Together 
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Solidarity, Resistance and Messages From Montgomery: Some Signs and Sense of Things Possible Together 

August 17, 2023

 It is Haji Malcolm who taught us that there are signs for those who can, want and have the will to see, and if we read them rightly, there are signs of the times that offer foundational lessons from the past and instructive evidence of an emerging future of renewed mutual caring, community and struggle for us as a people.    I speak here of the solidarity and collective resistance in Montgomery demonstrated by Black people in defense of Damieon Pickett, a Black man, against the unprovoked and unjustifiable aggression by a group of Whites, male and female, attacking him en

Recalling Our Kawaida Maatian Master Class: Careful Thought About Things That Matter 
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Recalling Our Kawaida Maatian Master Class: Careful Thought About Things That Matter 

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 3, 2023

The emerging age of the centrality of artificial intelligence in our lives unavoidably raises the question of the increasing imposed artificiality of our lives, not only in terms of the mediating and problematic role of machines, screens and devices in our relations with each other, but also our conceptions of a good life, a good person and a good society. 

Bearing Witness to the Wonder of Nana JoAnn Watson: Waking Up Detroit, Us and the World 
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Bearing Witness to the Wonder of Nana JoAnn Watson: Waking Up Detroit, Us and the World 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 20, 2023

Let us pause and bow our heads and raise our hands in rightful remembrance and praise for our beloved sister, freedom fighter, pastor, professor and political leader, reparations advocate and activist, and radio and TV host of “Wake Up Detroit,” a helper in time of need and “one who comes at the voice of the caller,” the Most Reverend Dr. JoAnn Watson who came into being April 19, 1951, and made transition and ascension on July10, 2023.  

Racial Justice, Reparations and Affirmative Action: Resisting Supreme Court Racist Fantasies and Fiats 
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Racial Justice, Reparations and Affirmative Action: Resisting Supreme Court Racist Fantasies and Fiats 

 Dr. Maulana KarengaJuly 6, 2023

At the outset, let me begin by reassuring us and our opponents that regardless of the recent racist ruling of the Supreme Court to end affirmative action, this is not the end of our life or our struggle. Indeed, we have clearly weathered worst winters of White racism and supremacy and have repeatedly stood up defiantly in the coffins of oppression designed for our social death and continued our awesome and toll-taking march toward freedom.