Principle 6: Kuumba (Creativity) To do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Tweet
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Kwanzaa: Day Five
Principle 5: Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Tweet
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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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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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Principle 2: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves. Tweet
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Principle 1: Umoja (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race. Tweet
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“The policeman on the street is the most powerful person in the criminal justice system. If he is in the grip of some grim private impulse or carries with him some bigoted private agenda, he can- all on his own- take your life, beat you and choose to lie about your guilt or innocence. If […]
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Donald Cotton is the inventor of nuclear reactor propellants. Tweet
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“‘Bloom where you’re planted, child,’ she used to say whenever I talked about all the things I was going to do when I got back home, back to the city, where we had all kinds of things- stores, TVs, indoor plumbing- that she didn’t have in the country. ‘Do what you can, with what you […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week- Part 3: “Amusing Ourselves To Death” By: Neil Postman
“…Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world. I say this in the face of the popular conceit that television, as a window to the world, has made Americans exceedingly well informed. Much depends here, of course, on what is meant by being informed. I will pass […]
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