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Furaha Henry-Jones' children play during Kuumba Celebration held at Sinclair in the basement of Building 8. -- photos by Kamari Stevens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Kuumba Celebration was held Feb. 26, in Building 8 in the Student Leadership Development Center. The African American History Month Committee and Professor Boikai Twe’s African American Studies 111 class coordinated the event.<\/p>\n

The celebration had performances by Sinclair’s Life Choir, Jazz band Global Theory, a presentation on nutrition by Nefertiti Oji-njideka, Research Assistant in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, as well as a Talent competition, and African-American Trivia.<\/p>\n

Kuumba is one of the principles of Kwanzaa. Kuumba, meaning “creativity,” represents “[doing] 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,” according to history.com.<\/p>\n