Peace! The word Kwanzaa is a Swahili word which means “first fruits.” This is a celebration whose origins derive from the ancient tradition of the community coming together to celebrate the season’s end harvest, the food and grain from the field which would sustain their existence for another seasonal cycle. Our harvest is the Nguzo Saba: The Seven Principles, which we come together and recommit (harvest) ourselves to for another year. As the ancients did with their harvest t

Peace! We must do what’s best for us, not simply follow others because what they’re doing looks good. What appears successful for someone else may not be what is right or necessary for us. Consciousness means knowing the difference between what shines and what truly builds. Too often, we get caught up in what looks good and not in what is good. We chase after the image of progress without checking the ingredients of what we’re consuming. Consciousness demands that we pause, r

Peace! Cipher is Allah’s Five Percent, a Nation of Gods and Earths. Cee is to have a clear comprehension not only of who you are by nature and origin in this world, b.u.t. also of all that we think, say, and do. Cee is the verb of understanding. Truth is that which is real and proven to be so through our Ceeing. As true and living Gods and Earths, Ceeing comes through critically analyzing and correctly interpreting that which reveals the truth of what we are doing the Knowled