Happy Kwanzaa to all! Created in 1966 by activist and professor Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa celebra

Happy Kwanzaa to all! Created in 1966 by activist and professor Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa celebrates the impact of African heritage in African American culture through a week-long ceremony grounded in seven core principles: umoja (unity), kujichagulia (self-determination), ujima (collective work and responsibility), ujamaa (cooperative economics), nia (purpose), kuumba (creativity), and imani (faith). Contemporaneous with Karenga’s efforts, Barbara Jones-Hogu’s Relate to Your Heritage (1971) also compels African Americans to connect to African culture, featuring profiles of Black individuals in African-inspired dress and adornment. Barbara Jones-Hogu was an artist, educator, and filmmaker, and a member of AfriCOBRA, a Chicago-based artist collective established in 1968 who worked in service of Black liberation movements and advocated for the incorporation of African aesthetics in their art. This Jones-Hogu work is currently traveling as part of We Wanted a Revolution, and a number of AfriCOBRA artists, including Jones-Hogu will be represented in the forthcoming Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. This post recognizes the memory of Barbara Jones-Hogu, who passed away this year at the age of 79.Posted by Ashley JamesBarbara Jones-Hogu (American, born 1938). Relate to Your Heritage, 1971. Screenprint on paper Brooklyn Museum; Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.26. -- source link

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