The Black Candle - Kwanzaa Movie Trailer - www.theblackcandle.com

Narrated by Maya Angelou and directed by M.K. Asante, Jr., The Black Candle is a landmark, vibrant documentary that uses Kwanzaa as a vehicle to explore and celebrate the African-American experience.

A film by award-winning author and filmmaker M.K. Asante, Jr., The Black Candle is an extraordinary, inspirational story about the struggle and triumph of African-American family, community, and culture.

Filmed across the United States, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean, The Black Candle is a timely illumination on why the seven principles of Kwanzaa (unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith) are so important to African-Americans today.

The first feature film on Kwanzaa, The Black Candle traces the holidays growth out of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s to its present-day reality as a global, pan-African holiday embraced by over 40 million celebrants.

With vivid cinematography and an all star cast that features the best and brightest from the hip-hop and the civil rights generations, The Black Candle is more than a film about a holiday: its a celebration of a people!

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[draethegreat]

if someone native american had native american pottery in there home it will be seen as racial

if someone asian had asian pottery it will be seen as racial

if someone black had african pottery it will really be look at as racial

but if someone white had european pottery it will be viewef as non racial just western culture or they just like it???

think about it! if someone white study european history they will be call historian if

blacks study africa will be call afrocentric

[chainsawmurderface2]

(Part 3) The blacks to whom you are referring to, the ones who hate whites, hate white people because they represent the tyranny within society and to them whites are effigies of their oppression. Now, I am by no means condoning black hatred for white people, but I understand why hatred for whites exists in SOME black people. The relationship between Kwanza and blacks is no different from Christians with Christmas, the Irish with St. Patricks Day, or most Americans with Independence Day.

[davisismail1comcast]

Educate, Elevate, Articulate, and don't Hesitate to build yoour children out of the madness and back into something naturally ours Faraha Ya Kwanzaa

[davisismail1comcast]

If a nation or race of people start identifying BACK to their heritage, it is a threat to white so-called dominance and the value sytems that they but in place, so it is only natural that they hate Afro- American who are re-discovering who they are and what THEY value. Further more it does not matter how positive it is to whites, or to highly ignorant blacks, it is a threat to all things white. It changes your dynamic and it changes your paridigm, and that my friends is power incarnate. cont..

[davisismail1comcast]

I like draethegreat logic in understanding the biased towards Africans and others ethnic peoples of color in America. I will add this to his intelligent critique, if you look at europeans early History(Roman Conquest) the catalyst of there strength was the absorbing of those people culture that they raided or defeated. Those from those traditions whose sprits were broken gave information and there traditions to the Romans. If a Nations of people who identify BACK to their origins cont..

[gck1953]

In respect for the language of "da hood", I want to wish you a Very Muthfuckin' merry Kwanzaa.

[myndae]

@belladeballe

Paz and Umoja!

I've had the good fortune of meeting different types of Christians. Some are fundamentalist, some are racist, some practice, some are metaphysical and theoretical. There are even a few religious groups and people (like the ba'hai) who are multi-religious. I have learned, it's sometimes help to not "stereotype" all Christians.

It is powerful (and true) to say: "I believe" or many members of my church express (or practice...)

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[myndae]

I've had the good fortune of meeting many different types of Christians. Some are fundamentalist, some are racist, some try to practice, some are metaphysical, and others are theoretical. There are even a few religious groups and people (like the ba'hai) who are multi-religious. I have learned, it's sometimes help to not "stereotype" all Christians.

It is often helpful to share your beliefs and experiences like: "I believe" or many members of my church believe (or express...)

[belladeballe]

On the surface, all of this sounds good, but is it really true, especially for those of us who KNOW the truth of how Jesus Christ came into the world to save all of us, regardless of race? Be careful. This movie teaches principles that run counter to what Christ taught. We cannot "save" ourselves. We believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the only way. Christ is for all of us not just the white man. Do not worship the 'false god' of ancestry. We are one race..HUMAN, created by God.

[mzpoetik08]

shut the hell up, and quit hatin. it's constant judgement. black people can't do sh*t without someone trying to call them racist. go to hell. in gasoline draws, honestly. Europeans steal and kill and name everything, go talk about that, don't worry about what happens here. this isn't the space for that.

[thekwanzaasong]

love this video....check out my video ok Support Kwanzaa

[peasah2005]

African people shouldn't be afraid to be with and to connect within our true principles.

African people have a voice onto us, a value that represents us and a

empowerment that defies us.

Kwanzaa is a special time for Africans to thank our ancestors and to continue where they left off.