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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 7:40 am
War I Googled this for you (and me): The placement of the mishumaa saba (candles) in the kinara is as follows: Black, for the color of African peoples everywhere, is located in the center. Three red candles, represents the blood of the ancestors, are placed to the left. Three green candles that symbolize the earth, life, and the ideas and promise of the future, are placed to the right. Beginning December 26 with the black mushumaa, a different candle is lit for each day, alternating from left to right. After the candlelighting, the principle of the day is discussed. Snip: Click here for entire article
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 11:54 am
KUJICHAGULIA Kujichagulia (koo-gee-cha-goo-LEE-ah) means self-determination and is the second day of Kwanzaa. On this day, we pledge to define ourselves, to NAME ourselves, to create for ourselves, and to speak for ourselves, instead of being defined, named by, created for and spoken for by others. On this day we design for ourselves a positive future and then vow to make that prophecy -- that DREAM -- a self-fulfilling one.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 1:10 pm
Thanks Mame! I now see those are green candles to the right.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 9:47 pm
YW War! 
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, December 28, 2008 - 1:51 pm
UJIMA Ujima (ooh-GEE-mah) is the third day of Kwanzaa and means "collective work and responsibility". On this day we celebrate working together in the community to help others. For Ujima, we pledge to rebuild our communities and to help our people solve our own problems by working together to do it.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 3:37 pm
UJAMAA Ujamaa (OOH-jah mah) means cooperative economics and is the fourth day of Kwanzaa. On this day of Kwanzaa, we pledge to develop our own businesses and to support them, to maintain shops, stores and industry that contribute to the well-being of our community and to drive out businesses (boycott, etc.) that take FROM our communities and give nothing back.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 6:45 pm
I really love the meanings behind each day of Kwanzaa, thanks for sharing them here.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 7:10 pm
I do too. There is such beauty and a spirit of giving in each celebration.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, December 29, 2008 - 7:17 pm
I agree with both of you! Not only that, but rather or not you celebrate Kwanza, the principals are things that can be applied to anyones life.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 3:58 pm
NIA Nia (NEE-ah) is the fifth day of Kwanzaa and it means "purpose". On this day, we pledge to build and develop our communities, our schools and our families. We also pledge to provide a strong communal foundation from which our children can develop into strong and productive people.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 5:33 pm
KUUMBA Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah) is the sixth day of Kwanzaa, and it means "creativity". On this day, we pledge several things. We pledge to do whatever we can to make our communities and homes more beautiful and better than we found them. We also pledge to use our creative talents and energies to improve young minds and hearts.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, January 01, 2009 - 8:47 pm
IMANI Imani (ee-MAH-nee) is the seventh and last day of Kwanzaa. Imani means faith. On this day, the beginning of the new year we pledge to believe with all our hearts and minds in our people, our parents, our good and dedicated teachers and leaders, and in the greater good of the work we do with and for one another, for the community and for the PEOPLE.

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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 10:05 am
Happy 50th Motown!! Motown turns 50, proud of musical, social legacy
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 1:34 pm
Awesome, LadyT! Some of my very fave music came out of Motown!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 1:49 pm
Now if there's a smi-hile on my face, it's only there trying to fool the public Love me some Smokey!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 1:54 pm
Lots of 50th events this year.. makes me feel, um.. old. But YAY for Motown!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 4:43 pm
Love Motown music!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 5:11 pm
That is some of the greatest music ever!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, January 16, 2009 - 6:43 am
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. Nobel Bio And what a 80th birthday celebration we'll be having for you on Tuesday, Dr. King!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, January 16, 2009 - 1:32 pm
Michelle Obama Confronts ‘Extra Burden’ in New, Historic Role By Heidi Przybyla and Kim Chipman Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Michelle Obama comes to global prominence bearing the weight of expectations that she’ll be every woman’s role model, representing every mother of young children and every professional trying to balance career and family. There’ll be another burden too: Beginning with next week’s inaugural ceremonies, everything about the nation’s first black first lady will be dissected, from her policy positions to her parenting to her wardrobe. <snip> But none of them broke a barrier as formidable as does Obama: the barrier of race. <snip> “It’s going to take a huge amount of adjustment on behalf of the country to get used to the sight of a black woman as first lady,” he said. In part that is because so few black women have held any kind of high office, and in the civil rights movement most were behind-the-scenes participants. “For some people, it will be kind of a culture shock,” said Paul Taylor, chairman of the Philosophy Department at Temple University in Philadelphia. <snip> Neck Snap’ “She’s got to deal with the stereotype about black women being bossy and too strong and domineering,” said Emory University political scientist Andra Gillespie. “If you see her neck snap too much, people are going to say ‘that’s a little too sister or too ghetto.’ That’s different than anything her predecessors had to deal with.” <snip> Obama must also grapple with the scrutiny of her daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. Temple University’s Taylor says even the Obama girls’ hair may become a public fascination. “Hair has always been a vexed issue for African-American women,” he said. Will Michelle continue to allow Malia to wear cornrows? “It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with that.” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aNA8G_wYm0QM&refer=home
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, January 16, 2009 - 4:20 pm
Please tell me that is just somebody's horseshit conjecture. Sure, there is going to be a fascination with her because she is young and beautiful and fashionable and an attorney and very bright. But worrying about the child's corn rows? Give me a break.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Friday, January 16, 2009 - 5:09 pm
Agreed, Juju. I am also not sure why the authors think that the country will go into shock at 'the sight of a black woman as first lady' when as far as I could discern, the country seemed generally unfazed by 'the sight of a black woman as secretary of state.' I anticipate that Michelle and the girls, however their hair is styled, will be very well received. I do think, tho, that there will be a few racists who will suffer chest pains at the sight of a black president (heh)
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 10:35 am
Well Condoleeza (sp) umm how shall I say it, uh wasn't that ethnic. But there are still schools and workplaces that do not allow dredlocs so this is not outside of the relm of possiblity.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 11:27 am
I hope this isn't a stupid question but why is that? Is it prejudice?
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Saturday, January 17, 2009 - 11:48 am
I think, and hope, that Michelle will have the confidence to just be herself, same goes for her girls. Imho it is probably the best way she can serve as a positive role model, and win the respect and affection of america. I am sure that she will be under scrutiny and there will be a few dumb things written. But the media for the most part, I think, wants to admire her. here is an article on topic For American black women, Michelle Obama is the new role model
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