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Righteously Remembering Haji Malcolm: Becoming and Being Ourselves 
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Righteously Remembering Haji Malcolm: Becoming and Being Ourselves 

Dr. Maulana KarengaApril 28, 2022

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 must make sure it is righteous and rightful remembrance. Indeed, it must be a critical remembering that reaches back in the practice of sankofa, retrieving the best of his moral sensitivities, thought and practice and using them to ground our lives, inform our work and guide our ongoing struggle to be ourselves and free ourselves.  

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

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

Dr. Maulana Karenga  March 10, 2022

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.  

Black Health, Wellness and Struggle: Towards A Radical Racial Healing
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Black Health, Wellness and Struggle: Towards A Radical Racial Healing

Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana StudiesFebruary 3, 2022

This year’s Black History Month theme, “Black Health and Wellness,” opens space for us to call into focus our self-determined and self-sustaining ways of knowing, working and struggling to achieve, protect, promote and sustain our health, health care and healing in a society which is the source of so much of our preventable sickness, needless suffering, and underserved deaths. And thus arises the undeniable need for righteous and relentless struggle, not only to achieve justice and end oppression, but also to achieve a comprehensive radical racial healing.

Kwanzaa’s Meaning in the Midst of Pandemic:
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Kwanzaa’s Meaning in the Midst of Pandemic:

Dr. Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair of Africana StudiesDecember 16, 2021

Each year at Kwanzaa we celebrate the good in and of the world. We celebrate the good of family, community and culture; the good hoped for and harvested, achieved and enjoyed, worked for, witnessed and brought to fruition.

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.

Raising the Million Man March: Remembering and Reaffirming Its Mission
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Raising the Million Man March: Remembering and Reaffirming Its Mission

Dr. Maulana KarengaOctober 14, 2021

It was 26 years ago, October 16, 1995, that we stood firmly together, 2 million plus strong in Washington, D.C. Called to action by Min. Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam and the critical juncture and demands of our history, we declared our commitment to assume a new and expanded responsibility in life, love and struggle. Below follows an excerpt from the Million Man March/Day of Absence Mission Statement focusing on the shared responsibility of Black men and women in holding themselves responsible, as well as the government and corporate world, and raising issues insightfully and compelling current.

Talk Freedom to the People: Framing Our Future in Struggle
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Talk Freedom to the People: Framing Our Future in Struggle

Dr. Maulana KarengaSeptember 30, 2021

As we of the Organization Us closeout a month-long celebration of our 56th anniversary, I want to reshare with you an article I previously wrote concerning the praise and practice of freedom. For it is in the five broad areas of our liberation struggle, i.e., education, mobilization, organization, confrontation and transformation, that freedom is liberating and liberated ground on which we stand.