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Manhood, Mission and the Million Man March: Transformative Practice and Policy in Struggle
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Manhood, Mission and the Million Man March: Transformative Practice and Policy in Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 28, 2021

The meaning and mission of manhood, especially Black manhood, is an ancient and ongoing question, for it is not only about a presence, but also about a process and practice, and not only about just being, but also about constantly becoming. In a word, it is about ever striving and struggling to be our best and come into the fullness of ourselves as men, African men and human beings.

Practicing Sankofa: Seasons of Struggle and Change
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Practicing Sankofa: Seasons of Struggle and Change

Dr. Maulana KarengaFebruary 18, 2021

We move through February and March to celebrate Black History Month I and II as naturally and necessarily as men and women meet and merge for joy and life, and seasons change and bring some new and needed good into the world. Our history is a self-conscious and sustained struggle for growth, transformation and transcendence to ever higher levels of human life in ever-expanding realms of human freedom and human flourishing.

Righteous Reflection On Being African: A Kwanzaa Meditation
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Righteous Reflection On Being African: A Kwanzaa Meditation

Dr. Maulana KarengaDecember 12, 2019

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.

Righteous Reflection on Being African: A Kwanzaa Meditation
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Righteous Reflection on Being African: A Kwanzaa Meditation

Dr. Maulana KarengaDecember 27, 2018

As Kwanzaa draws to an end and the old year meets and merges with the new, we are, as always, obligated and urged by ancient custom and ongoing current concerns to sit down and seriously engage in righteous reflection on being African in the world. To speak of righteous reflection is, in an Ebonics sense of the word righteous, to talk of thought that is real, ethical and excellent. That is to say, thought that is free from the artificial, false and formulaic and comes from the heart as well as from the head. What is aimed at here is thought which is informed by an ethical sensitivity to the subject under consideration. And this holds true whether in our concern for each other or for the health and wholeness of the world; for the loss of human life or the mutilation of historical memory; and for the deprivation of material needs or the denial of dignity and rights due everyone.

Gleaning Marcus Garvey’s Lessons in Struggle:
 Questioning, Organizing and Liberating Ourselves
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Gleaning Marcus Garvey’s Lessons in Struggle:
 Questioning, Organizing and Liberating Ourselves

Dr. Maulana KarengaAugust 2, 2018

The Honorable Marcus Garvey (August 17, 1887—June 10, 1940) stands as a model and a monument of African liberational thought and practice and the human possibilities inherent it.  And thus, his life and work offer abundant lessons for us. He emerges in a time of triumphant European imperialism—Europe’s political, economic and cultural hegemony throughout the world. He travels the world and sees Black people everywhere in various forms of domination, certainly less achieved than they could be and less assertive on the world stage than their ancient and glorious history demanded of them.