Habari Gani: What’s the word?

The Seven Principles (Nguzo Saba) of Kwanzaa are:

• Umoja (oo-MOH-jah): Unity
  

  Success starts with Unity. Unity of family, community, nation and race.

• Kujichagulia (koo-jee-chah-goo-LEE-ah): Self-Determination
  

  To be responsible for ourselves. To create your own destiny.

• Ujima (oo-JEE-mah): Collective work and responsibility
  

  To build and maintain your community together. To work together to help one another within your community.

• Ujamaa (oo-jah-MAH): Collective economics
  

  To build, maintain, and support our own stores, establishments, and businesses.

• Nia (NEE-ah): Purpose
  

  To restore African American people to their traditional greatness. To be responsible to Those Who Came Before (our ancestors) and to Those Who Will Follow (our descendants).

• Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah): Creativity
  

  Using creativity and imagination to make your communities better than what you inherited.

• Imani (ee-MAH-nee): Faith

Believing in our people, our families, our educators, our leaders, and the righteousness of the African American struggle.

West End Christmas Party: You’re invited

christmas-invitationnoaddress2.pdf

Check out the above invitation and come out!!! Hope to see you there; you will not believe the surprises Carl and Liz Ness have in store for us. There will be caroling in many languages, Spanish-Swahili- (another I forgot). An out doors Electric Slide Dance Contest!!! (I still have issues doing this- and think this night will be the night I finally learn! LOL) there will also be a few surprise guests, residents from the1930’s !

*Security will be provided curtsy of our council person Cleta Winslow.

This will be a wonderful memorable family/community night.

Public Relations Officer- NPU-T

Hello everyone!

I have recently accepted a role as the Public Relations Officer within the Neighborhood Planning Unit -T. I will need all your help to be successful and make this role effective.
You’ll hear more about this in the near future, but in the mean time I wanted to inform you of some of my duties. I welcome all and any ideas and suggestions.

Public Relations Officer (PRO) – Charged with re-introducing NPU-T to the neighborhoods and promoting the theme of “Building on our strengths in clean, safe, neighborhoods”. Along with the NPU-T Chair, the PRO will help recruit committee members for the committee chairs and advertise their respective projects and activities. In addition to the Community Ambassador and Vice Chair, the PRO is authorized to represent NPU-T in an official manner when necessary.

• Acts as liaison with neighborhood associations, in partnership with Morehouse RTF
• Oversees and manages official NPU-T communication channels (i.e. email distribution group, blog, website, etc)
• Generally promotes NPU-T and its agenda

I’m very excited about this role and the opportunity to create a synergy between our community associations.

We have a lot going for us, within this zone- let’s grab hold and insure we ALL prosper and take part in the many new initiatives being developed and implemented.  No community left behind, no community unrepresented.