Greetings Good People! This year's Kwanzaa Table will feature "tales of the day", e.g. stories and lessons out of the days headlines that help us to remember that the principles of Kwanzaa do not simply honor the past or prepare for the future, but also define the core of how we can embrace and exist today.

UJIMA, collective work and responsibility, is the principle of the day. "Education" is a collection of experiences - from the people we know, to the experiences we have, to the books we read, to the classes and classrooms (formal and informal) we learn from - and it is the community's responsibility to make sure that we have as many of those experiences as possible. It is the ultimate example of a community's activation of the principle of ujima.

So for today's modern take, we'll be courting some good trouble! As we take a moment to reflect on education as the epitome of a community's collective work and responsibility, I delve into the challenge of searching for success stories in pushing back on book bans. Curiously harder than it should be since - yes! - the stories are out there. Let's see if you can outsmart your search engine's algorithm, too!

UJIMA inspiration in action:
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/what-happened-when-students-led-fights-to-reverse-book-bans/2023/07