Day 5: Nia Purpose (Click here for day 4) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized … [Read more...]
Day 3 – Ujima – Collective Work & Responsibility – Muhammad Ali
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Hey folks! As promised here is Day e of the 28 Day Nguzo Saba Devotion Project I mentioned in my post about Kwanzaa Haters finding a loving spirit this year. Enjoy! Day 3: Ujima (click here for Day 2) Collective Work & Responsibility To build and maintain our community together and to make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them … [Read more...]
Dear Kwanzaa Haters: Not This Year
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There really is something beautiful about participating in a community wide celebration of something. Holidays are just that - collective agreements that something special is happening or needs to be commemorated. No one's holiday fell from heaven and landed in our laps. Some are inspired by spiritual or religious movements. Others may have more secular beginnings regardless … [Read more...]
#BlackOutBlackFriday
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Where Do We Go From Here? There’s been a lot of talk of boycotts in the wake of Ferguson and the grand jury’s refusal to indict officer Darren Wilson for the death of Mike Brown, Rekia Boyd's killer Officer Dante Severin who got off after a prosecutor charged him incorrectly, the death of Sandra Bland, LaQuan McDonald, schools being closed in Black communities, … [Read more...]
Nate Parker Speaks Part 2: Mike Brown, Art & Activism, The Nat Turner Project
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Nate Parker: Using Art to Tell Stories that Heal This is the second segment of our two part interview (catch part one here) with Activist/Actor/Director Nate Parker. Parker stars as Officer Kaz Nicols in his latest successful film Beyond the Lights. He just released #AmeriCAN, a powerful PSA inspired by the death of Mike Brown and the events in Ferguson, MO, and is … [Read more...]