United In Anger
Fighting For Our Lives It's been a hard week for me and lots of my clients. I work with organizers, activist, and leaders that are struggling to understand what the future holds for them and their communities. One young woman said she felt like she was entering the "...
Tone, Context And Timing
Destroying Dignity I led a training a few weeks back on micro behaviors. I started off with the official definition: Micro-behaviors are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that...
What Hope Looks Like
Photo Credit: Unknown The last Day of Kwanzaa Principle #7 Imani (faith) tells us to believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory our struggle. Faith calls us to believe in the good we seek to...
Manifesting Justice
IMAGE: TATYANA FAZLAIZADEH/FACEBOOK The series, called Stop Telling Women To Smile started in the fall of 2012 and is ongoing by the artist. Kwanzaa Day 6 Principle #6 Kuumba (Creativity) speaks to our shared obligation to do all we can constantly heal and repair the...
Being Great
PHOTO: by Mashable Teammates Eli Harold, left, and Eric Reid, right, joined Kaepernick, center, in kneeling before a 49ers game. Day 5 Kwanzaa Principle #5 Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore...
Shared Work And Wealth
Photo: REUTERS Kwanzaa Day 4 Principle #4 Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) commits us to the principle and practice of shared work and wealth. It stresses our kinship with others and the environment and appreciation for the need for a just and equitable distribution of...
Remembrance, Reflection and Re-commitment
We are in this together... Kwanzaa Day 3 Principle #3 Ujima (collective work and responsibility) calls on us, to build and maintain our community together and to make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together. This principle teaches...
An Audacious Act
Day 2 of Kwanzaa Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. This reaffirms the right of persons and peoples to determine their own destiny and daily lives; to live in peace and security, and...
The Seven Principles
December 26th is the first day of Kwanzaa. I love Kwanzaa, not necessarily for the traditions, but they are beautiful. I love that Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be Black but most importantly what it means to...