NAACP Umoja Festival

Robin Wright-President of NAACP

Kori Fields and Rashonna Duett of Modista

Harry, Jasmine, Dierre, and Dylan of Black United Students

Camille McCraney, Kimberly Miller, and Marlena Malone of Harambee

Photos and Story By: Britany Ruby

Umoja means "unity" in KiSwahili. NAACP’s Umoja Festival, on September 3, 2008, represented unity between all of the minority organizations on campus. Orgs like BUS, SALSA, and Modista held tables at the festival. KSU's Gospel Choir did song and step and the Golden Reflections did a dance routine. NAACP also filled Oscar Ritchie’s grounds with spoken word.

The festival concluded with an introduction of the Pan African Studies staff and the leaders of the student organizations. This brought light to the underlying purpose of the festival; to encourage students to get involved in the minority organizations on campus and learn more about the Pan African Studies department.

After two hours of music and socializing they got their point across pretty well.

Pictures from Kupita!!

The craziness in Oscar Ritchie!!!!

What's happening at Kent State!

Hey, are you looking for something to do on campus!? Check out the events, for this month.....

September 3-NAACP Unity festival in Taylor field. Starts at 6:30pm with live performances.

September 11-Black Squirrel Festival 12pm-7pm, Reggae Party @ The Robin Hood 10pm

September 16-Harambee Open Mic in the Ratskellar @ 8pm

Sept 17- SALSA "Let's Talk About Sex" 7:30pm

Sept 24- SALSA Hispanic AIDS Day

Uhuru Photoshoot Ideas

For this Spring's edition of Uhuru the goal is to create a magazine that promotes African awareness in students at Kent State University. Its theme is "Black is beautiful."
The website's banner features Alex Wek because my original thought was to feature dark-skinned models looking great in the magazine and represent for dark-skinned people everywhere. We will not have only dark-skinned models anymore, but we still want to use African-inspired clothing with kente prints and patterns to ingrain a sense of African pride amongst the student body.
The pictures above and below are from the line, Boxing Kitten. The prints and colors that designer Maya Amina uses are what we are looking for to dress our models in our photo shoot this Fall. These pictures serve as inspiration for what is to come in this Spring's Uhuru.