Less these days, but, more often than not, black parents didn’t care for their children going off to college to take up art. Or deciding against school for art or
Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle “Affirmation” by Assata Shakur I believe in living.I believe in the
Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it Tomorrow is the first day of 2023. You
Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness “True greatness and growth never occur
:: To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together We know about Black Wall Street, and I hope we know there
Ujima: to build and maintain our community together and make our community’s problems our problems and to solve them together According to the official Kwanzaa website (That’s the actual name
:: To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves Zora Neale Hurston, describing her childhood, said “My soul was with the gods and my body in
Umoja: to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race When we think of unity in our communities, the Civil Rights Movement undoubtedly comes to mind.
In April of 2022, I interviewed Angela Davis Johnson about her upcoming art show in Atlanta. She named it HOTFOOT. This is Part 2 of that interview. In Part 1,
“I’m from a lot of spaces, because my father was in the military. But I claim East Arkansas because that’s where my family is from. It’s the last place my grandmother