It is the Hall of Neighborhood Leadership Recognition.
The recognition honors an individual, family, group and/or organization outstanding contribution to neighborhood enhancement through Code of Conduct, trust, stewardship, innovation, quality of life and economic development focus for SUSTAINABILITY. An emphasis of "pipeline" development of human and hidden talent is a plus.
The seven days of Kwanzaa are used for categorical selection of achievements.
Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States honoring universal African American heritage and culture, observed from December 26 to January 1 each year. It features activities such as lighting a candle holder with seven candles and culminates in a feast and gift-giving. It was created by Dr. Maulana Karenga and was first celebrated in 1966–67. They are:
- UmojA (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
- Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.
- Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.
- Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
- Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
- Kuumba (Creativity): To do 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.
- Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
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Milwaukee Professionals Association ALL Hands on Deck, WE, Initiative is the sponsor.
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