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The Dropout (IG TheOnlyDropout)

The first hijab wearing news anchor on American television.

Saren

(Source: The John Carter Brown Library.)

@cherrylawncircle stole my heart with this awesome illustration! Have a beautiful holiday everyone.

Kwanzaa is a week-long holiday (Dec 26th-31st) created in 1966 to unite people in study of African philosophies and traditions, and offer a cultural counterpart to the political goals of the time. Kwanzaa was the vision of Dr. Maulana Karenga (current chair of the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach), and he describes it as “an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice.” It was first celebrated among members of the burgeoning Black Power movement and initially contended that Christianity was a White religion that Blacks should shun, but has since evolved into a cultural holiday rather than a religious one. The name derives from the Swahili phrase, “first fruits of harvest,” highlighting the Pan-African focus on the East African language of Swahili (despite the fact that East Africa was not involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade). Kwanzaa is based on Seven Principles (the Nguzo Saba): Umoja (unity); Kujichagulia (self-determination); Ujima (collective responsibility); Ujamaa (cooperative economics); Nia (purpose); Kuumba (creativity), and Imani (faith). According to Dr. Karenga, it “brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense.”

By Kwesi Abbensetts

Written in 1969. Still relevant.

Sound the Alarm by African American Expressions

Misty Copeland is the first black female soloist at ABT in two decades. This year, she’s the first black woman to dance the lead in The Nutcracker. 

Jesse Boykins III by Jabari Jacobs

St. Louis City votes IN FAVOR of Segregation Ordinance and celebrates their victory on March 1916.

This…..🎄