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Kwanzaa: Day Four

Principle 4: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. Tweet

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Kwanzaa: Day Three

Principle 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together. Tweet

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Kwanzaa: Day Two

Principle 2: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. Tweet

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Kwanzaa: Day One

Principle 1: Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. Tweet

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Video Of The Week: Culture, Thanksgiving & Holidays

The lecturers discuss: The definition of culture, the definition of holiday, the 10-song radio rotation list, the co-opting of culture, and social engineering. At the 30-minute mark, Native American, Guy Jones, discusses: Thanksgiving, nations vs. tribes, love and hate, relationships, the capitalist system, and prayer. [SIDEBAR: Black Love Day & Maafa Recognition Day- Genius!] Tweet

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Wise Intelligent Disusses Culture & Art

Wise Intelligent discusses: The power and influence of Black art, the myth of “conscious” music not selling, Hilary Clinton’s view of hip hop, what the purpose of an artist should be, and more. Tweet

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Dear America,

Sincerely, “Black America” Tweet

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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Pic Of The Week

Michael Brown Protestor. Ferguson, Missouri. 2014. Tweet

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Happy Birthday Malcolm X

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Segregation In New York

“New York was a place of extreme wealth and dire poverty, of glittering Manhattan financial centers and teeming slums. It was the job of the NYPD to make sure the two universes did not overlap. There were no Jim Crow segregation laws in Mew York, as there still were in the South, but unofficial segregation […]

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