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Kwanzaa

Happy Holidays From the national black doll museum

Kwanzaa a celebration of family unity & community,

Day 1# began on December 26,Umoja (unity) to come together with family ad friends

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Day 2# Kujichagulia (self determination) Determine to preserve my family's legacy  at the national black doll museum

Day 3# Ujima (collective work & responsibility) to build and maintain our community together and make our brothers and sisters problems our problems to solve them together

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Day 4# Ujamaa (cooperative economics) to build & maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses & profit from them together

Day 5# Nia (purpose) To make our collective vocation the building & developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness

Day 6# Kuumba (creativity) to always do as much as we can in order to leave our community more beautiful than we inherited it.

Day 7# Imani (faith) to believe in our hearts in our people ,our parents our teachers our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle

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