Kwanzaa Celebration in Flint, MI
Bring in the New Year with guiding principles to make ourselves and the community better. The Nguzo Saba has been celebrated over 30 years in the community. It provides substance and values rooted in African tradition.
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Kwanzaa Principle: Kuumba (Creativity)
Kuumba (Creativity) The 3rd Red candle. Demands continuous improvement both at the personal and family level. 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.
Quote: “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”
Kwanzaa Principles: Imani (Faith)
Imani (Faith) The 3rd Green candle victory of our struggle. Faith, is the first factor in life devoted to service. Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Faith in God is the greatest power, but great, too, is faith in oneself.” To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Quote: “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
Kwanzaa Principle: Kuumba (Creativity)
Kuumba (Creativity) The 3rd Red candle. Demands continuous improvement both at the personal and family level. 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.
Quote: “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”
Facilitator: DeWaun E. Robinson
Presenter: CBOP & Morehouse Inc.
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7 Principles of Kwanzaa
Habari Gani! Happy Kwanzaa! To join by link: bit.ly/Kwanzaa24_25All activities will be held everyday at Flint Odyssey House - Adolescent Center718 Oak St. Flint, MI 485033:00 PM - 5:00 PM #kwanzaa #principles
Kwanzaa Principle: Nia (Purpose)
Nia (Purpose) 2nd Green candle. Nation-building, organize African Americans into a self-conscious social force with the capacity to advance and defend the interest of black people, to restore them to builders of civilizations, begins in the family. To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Quote: “If you have purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.”
Facilitator DeWaun E. Robinson
Presenter: Saginaw African Cultural Festival
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Kwanzaa Principle: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economic)
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) 2nd Red candle. The unselfish concern for and devotion to the material well-being of others. To build and maintain our stores, shops and other businesses profit from them together.
Quote: “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.”
Kwanzaa Celebration: Kujichagulia (Self-determination)
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) – 1st Red candle to the left. African Americans to think and act in their interest based on their own particular needs and grounded in their history and culture. To define ourselves, name ourselves, create,d and speak for ourselves.
Quote: “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
Kwanzaa Celebration: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility
Habari Gani! (What’s the news?)
Day 3: Ujima = Collective Work and Responsibility
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) – 1st Green candle to the right. To care and concern for others, an understanding that “I am because we are, and because we are, I am.” We exist, we achieve, and we flourish because of the support and sacrifice of others. To build and maintain our community together and make our sister’s and brother’s problem our problem and to solve them together.
Quote: “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Happy Kwanzaa!
To join by link: bit.ly/Kwanzaa24_25
All activities will be held everyday at
Flint Odyssey House - Adolescent Center
718 Oak St. Flint, MI 48503
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
12/29 Hosted @ North Flint Food Market/Gala Event Center
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Kwanzaa Celebration: Kujichagulia (Self-determination)
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) – 1st Red candle to the left. African Americans to think and act in their interest based on their own particular needs and grounded in their history and culture. To define ourselves, name ourselves, create,d and speak for ourselves.
Quote: “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
Kwanzaa Celebration: Umoja (Unity)
Umoja (Unity) - Black candle lit first in the middle. To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
MC Breed Dedication
Special tribute for the life and legacy of the late great legendary MC Breed. December 1st is MC Breed Day. #flintmichigan
