Habari gani? (What’s the news?) Kuumba means creativity and is the 6th principle of Kwanzaa celebrated on December 31. To do always as much as we can in the way we can in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Harambee! Harambee! Harambee! Harambee! Harambee!
Read more "Kuumba"Muhindi ears of corn representing the children of the family in Kwanzaa.
Read more "Muhindi"Habari gani? (What’s the news?) Nia, the fifth day/principle of Kwanzaa, celebrated on 12/30, means purpose. To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Harambee! Harambee! Harambee! Harambee! Harambee!
Read more "Nia"Ujamaa (cooperative economics) is the 4th day/principle of Kwanzaa celebrated December 29th. To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and profit from them together. Harambee! Harambee! Harambee! Harambee!
Read more "Ujamaa"Habari gani? (What’s the news?) Ujima means collective work and responsibility and is the third principle/day of Kwanzaa celebrated December 28. To build and keep our community together; to make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together. Harambee!Harambee! Harambee!
Read more "Ujima"Habari gani? (What’s the news?) Kujichagulia, second day/principle of Kwanzaa, means self-determination, to define ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. Harambee! Harambee!
Read more "Kujichagulia"Habari gani? (What’s the news?) Umoja, first day/principle of Kwanzaa, December 26, means unity. To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, race and nation. Harambee (let’s pull together).
Read more "Umoja"Cameron Jamal Mikquise Thompson, 18, a transgender woman was shot and killed in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama in December 17, 2024. Alabama is one of nine states that don’t recognize sexual orientation, gender or gender identity in the legal classification of a hate crime, according to the Department of Justice. Thirty-two states include sexual orientation in […]
Read more "Cameron Jamal Mikquise Thompson"Tidye Pickett 1914 – 1986 first Black woman to be chosen in the Olympic Games in 1932. She was replaced by a white woman and did not compete.
Read more "Tidye Pickett"Carolyn Wysinger in 2024 became the first Out Black Lesbian Mayor in the history of the State of California. Mayor Carolyn Wysinger, City of El Cerrito, California.
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