The Nguzo Saba
This first principle of Kwanzaa means “Unity” and emphasizes togetherness in family, community, and nation.
What is Umoja?
This amendment did not grant Black women the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This scholar believed African American families are collective and extended.
Who is Herskovits?
He coined the term "Afrocentric Education."
Who is Molefi Asante?
Her cancer cells, known as HeLa, contributed to major scientific breakthroughs.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This principle promotes self-determination and the right to define, name, and speak for ourselves.
What is Kujichagulia?
This 1965 act aimed to eliminate racial discrimination in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
These kinship ties aren't by blood or marriage but played a key role during slavery
What are fictive kin relationships?
These types of kinship bonds are as strong as blood relations and are common in African American families
What are fictive kin relationships?
African Americans comprise people from these three sources
What is Descendants of enslaved Africans, Immigrants and descendants from Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America, and recent immigrants from the 52 countries of Africa.
This principle encourages collective work and responsibility to solve problems together and uplift the community.
What is Ujima?
The first enslaved Africans arrived this year?
What is 1619?
This school of thought views African American families through a culturally respectful
What is the Cultural Relativist school?
This individual emphasized studying African American families through their African roots.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The amount of cotton produced in 1860
What is 2.3 billion pounds?
This principle emphasizes building and supporting Black-owned businesses and economic development.
What is Ujamaa?
This amendment technically abolished slavery but with exceptions.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This major religion has been historically practiced by most Black families in the U.S.
What is Baptist?
The cultural ethnocentric school often viewed African American family life in this way.
What is pathological and dysfunctional?
This initiative uses family networks to improve breast cancer awareness in Black communities.
What is Kin Keepers?
This Kwanzaa principle is about creativity and using our talents to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial.
What is Kuumba?
He signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This sociologist believed Black families were part of universal assimilation.
Who is E. Franklin Frazier?
This reason explains why research on African American families is often misunderstood.
What is racism’s influence on scientific investigation?
Black women’s communication style around health is often based on this principle.
What is knowledge-sharing within family networks?