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

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.  

Us In the Interest of Our People: Centering the Many Seasons of Our Struggle 
Dr. Maulana Karenga

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.  

Solidarity, Resistance and Messages From Montgomery: Some Signs and Sense of Things Possible Together 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

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

“Saving Our Earth: Relate Rightly, Act Justly and Walk Gently in the World” 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

“Saving Our Earth: Relate Rightly, Act Justly and Walk Gently in the World” 

Dr. Maulana KarengaApril 27, 2023

 As always, the marking of this year’s Earth Day and Earth Month offers us and humanity as a whole an important invitation and opportunity to focus and reflect on our relationship and responsibility to the health and well-being of the natural world. This is not only because we are to constantly demonstrate through priorities and practice our appreciation of the intrinsic value of the earth, but also because the health and well-being of the world is deeply and inseparably linked to that of our own and the whole of humanity.  

Walking With Nana Woodson in History: Seeking Truth, Justice and Transformation 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Walking With Nana Woodson in History: Seeking Truth, Justice and Transformation 

Dr. Maulana KarengaFebruary 16, 2023

    It is the sacred teaching of our honored foremother, Nana Fannie Lou Hamer, that there are two things we all should care about “never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over. And in revisiting this teaching and our homage to Nana Dr. Carter G. Woodson, we seek to honor this sacred obligation. Again, so we might remember and raise up, pursue and do the good. For he is indeed one of those mighty bridges who taught us where we came from and offered us an unbreakable bridge to carry us

New Year Wishes and Work: Pursuing and Practicing Peace 
Opinion

New Year Wishes and Work: Pursuing and Practicing Peace 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 26, 2023

The end and beginning of the years always find us in a critical period of transition in which, responding to the mandates of our moral tradition and the human urgencies of our history as African people, we are compelled to continue forward and turn our best New Year wishes into our most committed work.

The Ethics and Essentiality of Struggle: Ancestral Insights From Our Ancient Sacred Texts 
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

The Ethics and Essentiality of Struggle: Ancestral Insights From Our Ancient Sacred Texts 

Dr. Maulana KarengaJanuary 12, 2023

One of the most critical tasks of our times is to reaffirm, deepen and expand our culture of struggle as a people, with its rich talkings and sacred teachings and its lived and uplifting experiences of “storm riding,” “blooming in the whirlwind,” and daring to “specialize in the wholly impossible” in the midst of the most savage and brutal situations of oppression history had to offer. Indeed, it is as ethically imperative as it is compellingly essential, for it is an anchoring, defining and ongoing project and practice of constantly struggling for African and human good and the well-being of the world.