HOLIDAYS
JANUARY (Ṣẹrẹ)
01 – Heartbreak Day
05 – Alvin Ailey birthday
06 – Eugene Goodman day
07 – Zora Neale Hurston birthday
07 – Chicago Freedom Movement day
08 – German Coast Uprising day
15 – Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday
FEBRUARY (Èrèlé)
01 – SNCC Sit-In Movement day
04 – Rosa Parks birthday
05 – Georgia Gilmore birthday
09 – Alice Walker birthday
17 – Huey P. Newton birthday
18 – Audre Lorde birthday
18 – Toni Morrison birthday
21 – Nina Simone birthday
21 – John Lewis birthday
23 – W.E.B. DuBois birthday
MARCH (Ẹrẹ́nà)
10 – Harriet Tubman birthday
10 – National Black Political Convention day
11 – Ralph Abernathy birthday
25 – Toni Cade Bambara birthday
25 – Phyllis Delores Brodie birthday
APRIL (Igbe)
04 – Maya Angelou birthday
09 – First Freedom Ride day
09 – Paul Robeson birthday
MAY (Ẹ̀bìbì)
06 – Gloria Richardson birthday
JUNE (Òkúdù)
07 – Nikki Giovanni birthday
19 – Juneteenth
22 – Octavia Butler birthday
JULY (Agẹmọ)
01 – The Amistad day
02 – Medgar Evers birthday
09 – June Jordan birthday
16 – Ida B. Wells birthday
27 – Queen Mother Moore birthday
AUGUST (Ògún)
02 – James Baldwin birthday
06 – Voting Rights Act of 1965 day
16 – Assata Shakur birthday
28 – March on Washington day
30 – Fred Hampton birthday
SEPTEMBER (Ọwẹ́wẹ̀)
15 – Four Little Girls in Birmingham day
23 – John Coltrane birthday
OCTOBER (Ọ̀wàrà)
15 – Black Panther Party founders day
16 – Million Man March day
17 – Fannie Lou Hamer birthday
28 – James Forman birthday
NOVEMBER (Bélú)
11- Daisy Bates birthday
27 – Poor People’s Campaign day
28 – Jekyll Island day
30 – Shirley Chisholm birthday
30 – Gordon Parks birthday
DECEMBER (Ọ̀pẹ)
01 – Rosa Parks refused day
05 – Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement began day
10 –Martin Luther King receives Nobel Peace Prize day
13 – Ella Baker birthday
17 – We Charge Genocide petition submitted to the United Nations day
19 – Carter G. Woodson birthday
31 – Watch Night
SEASONS
Our connections to the seasons vary historically and continually across the African diaspora, though common themes emerge, often linked to cosmic and earthly rhythms:
Spring ~ Ìrúwé ~ Renewal/New Year
A time of rebirth, cleanse, intentions, new beginnings.
Summer ~ Òsùn ~ Abundance/Fruition
A time of fertility, seeds, celebration.
Autumn ~ Ìwọ́wé ~ Transformation/Harvest
A time of abundance, balance, gratitude.
Winter ~ Òtútù ~ Rest/Reflection
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