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Always thankful to be a part of the Greensboro’s Kwanzaa Collective. This past year marked the 50th anniversary of Kwanzaa, a week long celebration running from December 26th to January 1st.

Each day a different principle of Kwanzaa is recognized. The seven principles celebrated are:

• Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
• Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
• 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.
• Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
• Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
• 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.
• 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.

It was a rich and powerful experience we were lucky to capture.

  

   

ConvergeSouth, the region’s premier technology and creativity conference for businesses, non-profits, and emerging entrepreneurs alike, hosted their 2016 event at the Wake Forest Innovation Quarter on Friday October 16^th.

This year’s conference featured panels, keynote addresses, networking and break-out sessions, DIY workshops, and more for those looking to expand their business by creatively utilizing all that the internet and technology has to offer. The VIP reception was held at the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel in downtown Winston-Salem, NC.

Speakers included Marcus Sheridan, JR Oakes, Jim Lin, Dorien Morin-van Dam, Claire Machamer, David Phillips, David Horn & Elliot Strunk, Emily Alphin,Megan Hannay, George B Thomas, and Stephanie Carls.