African-American Leaders in Unitarian Universalism

This Sunday Patricia Ice will lead our service exploring the legacy of African-American leaders in Unitarian Universalism.

This Sunday also marks the first day of Kwanzaa, a seven-day holiday honoring African-American culture. Each day during the holiday, a candle in the Kinara is lit representing the different principle being celebrated:

Dec. 26 – Umoja [Unity]: To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Dec. 27 – Kujichagulia [Self-Determination]: To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
Dec. 28 – Ujima [Collective Work and Responsibility]: To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together.
Dec. 29 – Ujamaa [Cooperative economics]: To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Dec. 30 – Nia [Purpose]: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Dec. 31 – Kuumba [Creativity]: 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.
Jan. 1 – Imani [Faith]: To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.