Seven nights of family and community

Celebrating

Singing

Dancing

Making music

Storytelling

Sharing meals

 

Nguzo Saba

Seven candles, seven symbols of values,

Reflecting culture, building community

 

Black for Unity

despite diaspora,

bonded in blood spilled and yet flowing,

washed in the water we crossed

 

Red for Self-determination

to speak who we are

with pride and dignity

 

Green for Working together,

taking Responsibility for each other

lifting and holding us as one for all

 

Red for building and sustaining legacies

empowering us with the will

to remember and make our own

 

Green for Purpose,

restoring traditions,

accomplishing greatness

never-ending

 

Red for Creativity,

adorning our world with

sights, sounds, scents, tastes, touches

that we make,

leaving it more beautiful than we received it

 

Green for Faith,

unspeakable joy,

unshakeable belief

in our righteousness

that our struggles will end in victory

 

Kwanzaa

The extra A

So they’ll know

It’s aspirational

American made

African inspired