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 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. |
 Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together. |
 Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. |
 Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. |
 Kuumba (Creativity) 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. |
 Imani (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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The Black Candle: A
Kwanzaa Celebration
Click to order via Amazon
Unrated
Actors:
Maya Angelou,
Chuck D
Directors: M.K. Asante Jr.
Producers: M.K. Asante Jr., Ben Haaz
Format: NTSC, Color, Widescreen
Region: All Regions
Studio: Asante Filmworx
Run Time: 71 minutes
The Black Candle is a landmark, vibrant documentary that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to celebrate the African-American experience. Narrated by renowned poet Maya Angelou and directed by award-winning author and filmmaker M.K. Asante, Jr., The Black Candle is an extraordinary, inspirational story about the struggle and triumph of African-American family, community, and culture. Filmed across the United States, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, The Black Candle is a timely illumination on why the seven principles of Kwanzaa are so important to African-Americans today. The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle traces the holiday's growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over 40 million celebrants. With vivid cinematography and an all star cast that features the best and brightest from the hip-hop and the civil rights generations, The Black Candle is more than a film about a holiday: it's a celebration of a people!
Kwanzaa! African Lives in a new world festival
AALBC recommended book
http://aalbc.com/kwanzaa!.htm
THE OFFICIAL KWANZAA WEB SITE
http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/
