~"The Black Candle"~ {Special 9 minute Preview}

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Film Creator
http://www.youtube.com/asantefilmworx

Interview with Film maker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc980aA3NvQ&feature=related

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!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• kwanzaa
• asantefilmworx
• Black
• Candle

[2009thetwinz]

when did we celebrate kwanzaa in ancient times??? kwanzaa was a holiday given 2 us by Europeans just like any other holidays. we need to study what our ancestors did to celebrate or @ least come up with something by ourselves and not have someone else tell us when or how...hotep

[RevolutionaryINK]

@2009thetwinz

When we come up with something for ourselves people like you say EUROPEANS gave it to us, like you are saying with Kwanzaa. Who gave us Kwanzaa specifically? Do you know? I would love to see who you say it was? Have YOU studied what our ancestors did to celebrate? No? Well what good is your comment. The Black man that created Kwanzaa DID study our African ancestors and developed Kwanzaa from African PRINCIPLES and precepts.

[RevolutionaryINK]

@2009thetwinz pt.2

Also, when you take something from our people like CHRISTMAS, you must already be prepared to GIVE them something to resonate with or else they will not vibe with your vision for Black/African progression. Hotep Family.

[GingerBronze]

*Singing* I love my people! I love my people!

O Gracious Mama Africa...as your daughter, I will NEVER allow nothing and no one to cut MY genetic and spiritual ties to you!

I celebrate and honor BLACKNESS.

Ase!

[RevolutionaryINK]

Ashe!

Indeed Beloved!

[precisescience]

nice job... great film... necessary information for Afrikans in Amerikkka... culture = freedom

[64kwacha]

@2009thetwinz Kwaanza means "First" in Kiswahili. In African culture the 1st harvest of a crop was celebrated to mark the occasion from which Kwaanza is borrowed. So, yes, Kwaanza was celebrated and still is in some parts of Africa.This festival was put together by Dr Maulana Karenga after doing some extensive studies of African culture. His study was aimed at giving African Americans a sense of cohesion centrered around a festival which was derived from African culture.

[2009thetwinz]

@RevolutionaryINK If our people knew the real history of Jesus then our people wouldn't need CHRISTMAS, again another European holiday created for greed and confusion. How about teaching our people where the roots of these holidaze come from. Bro TEF has a great video about the orgins of these so called holidays. I have nothing against the concept of Kwanzaa b/c we need 2 embrace our culture. Teach our people that the story christmas was stolen story about horus, do they teach that on kwanzaa?

[2009thetwinz]

@RevolutionaryINK I posed the 1st question 2 u...they may have used a black man as a frontman for creating this holiday,to have you 2 believe that black's created this and its going 2 b accept as a christmas for black people. but again in order for it 2 be made a "national holiday" some European had 2 be apart of its creation b4 it was stampd for approval. you should know this brother wit all the knowledge you have. NAACP was supposed 2 b started by blacks, its not....Europeans started it...

[QueenDean35]

Yeah I remember that! Being called an African booty scratched smh Teach the children don't depend on the school system.

[thekwanzaasong]

great video...check out my channel and video....help support kwanzaa

[peasah2005]

@RevolutionaryINK

My brother, Africans must learn to accept what we are and not what we aren't.

As an African male, I am so proud to be bless to learn about how we have been achievers in our own right as lawyers, builders, doctors, professors, farmers etc.

We have suffered, but we shouldn't afraid nor lose any hope at all.

Africa is the birth of roots, mankind, arts, maths and life and energy.

[freein2339]

Every Black person that raves about movies like "For Colored Girls" should see this...