Oh, look! There are plenty of resources out there for you to buy Black and to keep buying from Black-owned businesses. Every family celebrates Kwanzaa differently, so celebrate the holiday with your family and honor your African heritage however you choose to this year.
Because honestly, the past two years have been messy, so create your own traditions. Sometime during the week, take time to sit down with your loved ones and check out a bit of relevant educational content! Ujamaa , aka cooperative economics, can also include supporting Black charities. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Published online December 13, Bangura AK. Kuelekea Nadharia Ujamaa Mawasiliano: Toward a familyhood communication theory.
Published online Chapman R. In: Chapman R, ed. Routledge; Kitagawa T. The experience of place in the annual festival held in an Amazigh village in Southern Tunisia. Allen R. Legitimized Blackness?
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Karenga researched African harvest celebrations and combined aspects of several different celebrations, such as those of the Ashanti and those of the Zulu, to form the foundation of Kwanzaa. The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase matunda ya kwanza which means first fruits, or harvest, in Swahili.
Celebrations often include singing and dancing, storytelling, poetry reading, African drumming, and feasting. Karenga created seven guiding principles to be discussed during the week of Kwanzaa. The seven principles represent seven values of African culture that help build and reinforce community among African-Americans. Each day a different principle is discussed, and each day a candle is lit on the kinara candleholder. On the first night, the center black candle is lit, and the principle of umoja , or unity is discussed.
On the final day of Kwanzaa, families enjoy an African feast, called karamu. Umoja: Unity - To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia: Self-Determination - To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands!
Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. You got to love it, you! Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear.
What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. You got to love it. Flesh that needs to be loved. And o my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. The dark, dark liver-love it, love it, and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart.
For this is the prize. Today's Children's Activity. Thought for the day: Black, Daniel.
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