Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States (and more recently, Canada) but also celebrated in the Western African Diaspora. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving. It is ideological, with seven core principles (Nguzo Saba): Umoja - Unity, Kujichugalia - Self-determination, Ujima - Collective work and Responsibility, Ujamaa - Cooperative economics, Nia - Purpose, Kuumba - Creativity, and Imani - Faith. It was created by Maulana Karenga, and was first celebrated in 1966–67.This year Kwanzaa starts on Wednesday, December 26 and ends Tuesday, January 1.
Golden Ciphers is hosting Nia (Purpose), Sunday, December 30 at Friendly (2386 Unwin Road, Cleveland Ohio 44115 - United States) from 2pm - 8pm. There will be Vendors, Dancing, Drumming, Entertainment, Live DJ, Food. Vendors are welcome (tables are $25). For more information contact Golden Ciphers at (216)-574-4888
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Here
Get out of here
Take your negative attitude out of here
We're being positive here
So keep the negative out of here
We're making ourselves better here
We don't need your Pessimism here
We're serious about living here
We are working here
So take your playing out of here
-Charlotte
Monday, September 17, 2012
What The World Sees
The world looks and sees a kid
The world sees a kid
Livin` in the inner city
The world sees a kid
Surrounded by sin
The world sees a kid
Tainted by sin
The world sees a kid
Up to no good
The world only knows
Whats on t.v, in music and in movies
The world only knows
What it wants to see and what it sees....
Its all wrong
The world stereo-types us
Because of what it sees and where we live
The world thinks it knows us...
It doesn't
The world knows what it sees
On t.v, in movies, music and printed word
The world's too busy seeing whats not here
To see us
A small poem on what the world 'sees' and does not really see. The inner city (against what many think) is not as evil as its shown on t.v, in movies, in music and in the news. Yes, the inner city has problems, but so do the suburbs and rural areas. The news is making a bigger deal about the problems today and how bad its gotten when in fact its been like that all along. The suburbs and rural areas have those problems too, but they have the money to hide them. I'll be posting a lot of poems and I hope they'll help you.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Golden Ciphers
So if you have`nt noticed I posted about going to The Undergound Rialroad Freedom Center with a place called Golden Ciphers. I know I gave a link to their web page, but I thought I`d tell you a little bit about it. Golden Ciphers is a non-profit African American grassroots organization that is here to help the youth (ages 12-18) in the inter-city of Cleveland. Golden ciphers has programs everyday of the week: Monday is EET (or Entrepreneur Employment Training), Tuesday is Black Butterflies (girls group), Wednesday is Leadership, Thursday is Young Men Emerge (boys group), and Friday is Drumming as well. To learn more go to their web site: www.goldenciphers.org
Slavery
On May 23, 2012, I went with Golden Ciphers to the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
At the museum I learned what slaves had to go thru. Africans where taken from their homeland, marched across fields on foot, and put on a slave ship bound for the Americas. There was very little room on the slave ships. Slaves crouched in the holds with no where to lay down or go to the bathroom. They sat there in their own waste. Conditions where so bad that the slaves jumped ship knowing it was better than slavery.
When the slaves got to the Americas the where auctioned off by slave traders to the highest bidder. Babies and Children were ripped from their mothers arms and families seperated! Slave traders made around $800,000 a year!
Slavery was abolished by most countries (America being one of them), but its still going on! Some types of slavery are: Sex slaves, Child Slodiers, Forced laborers, and many more. The ones mentioned don`t happen as much in America (as far as I know) but there is slavery. A couple of the ones in America are Threats and Fraud.
This was suprising. I knew that in some countries (like India for one) there was still slavery, but it amazed me that its still going on in America. I thought it terrible that people don`t know and that is what this post is for, to inform you what is still gonig on in the world. When we don`t think its possible.
What do think? Is there anything you would add to this? Please tell me so I can inform more people.
Thanks for reading!
At the museum I learned what slaves had to go thru. Africans where taken from their homeland, marched across fields on foot, and put on a slave ship bound for the Americas. There was very little room on the slave ships. Slaves crouched in the holds with no where to lay down or go to the bathroom. They sat there in their own waste. Conditions where so bad that the slaves jumped ship knowing it was better than slavery.
When the slaves got to the Americas the where auctioned off by slave traders to the highest bidder. Babies and Children were ripped from their mothers arms and families seperated! Slave traders made around $800,000 a year!
Slavery was abolished by most countries (America being one of them), but its still going on! Some types of slavery are: Sex slaves, Child Slodiers, Forced laborers, and many more. The ones mentioned don`t happen as much in America (as far as I know) but there is slavery. A couple of the ones in America are Threats and Fraud.
This was suprising. I knew that in some countries (like India for one) there was still slavery, but it amazed me that its still going on in America. I thought it terrible that people don`t know and that is what this post is for, to inform you what is still gonig on in the world. When we don`t think its possible.
What do think? Is there anything you would add to this? Please tell me so I can inform more people.
Thanks for reading!
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