Post Date: November 20, 2022

Month of November Black Holidays

November 20, 2022 - Black Consciousness Day (or Zumbi Day) (Origin: Brazil) – In Portuguese: Dia da Consciência Negra, is observed annually on November 20 as a day “to celebrate a regained awareness by the black community about their great worth and contribution to the country”.

Black Awareness Day has been celebrated since the 1960s and has amplified its events in the last few years. Originally, it was celebrated on May 13 (the date of abolition of slavery in Brazil). It was later moved to November 20 to honor Zumbi’s death and is sometimes called Zumbi Day. It is an official state holiday in Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Mato Grosso, and Rio de Janeiro, and marked elsewhere by multiple city councils.

November 27, 2022 - (fourth Sunday in November) is Umoja Karamu Celebration, created in 1971 by Edward Simms Jr. to inject new meaning and solidarity into the Black family through ceremony and symbol. Umoja Karamu means “unity feast” in Swahili, and is based around five colors and their meanings, which represent five historical periods in African-American history. Black represents Black families before slavery, White symbolizes the scattering of Black families during slavery, Red denotes the liberation from slavery, Green signifies the struggle for civil equality and Gold implies hope for the future.

Month of November Black Historical Racial Injustice

There are numerous horrific incidents of Black Historical Racial Injustice in the month of November, dated back from November 1, 1879 to November 30, 1921. White Americans used lynching to terrorize and control Black people in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

November 1, 1879 - Federal Government Separates Native Children from Families in Efforts at Forced Assimilation.

November 30, 1921 - Local Sheriff in Texas Permits the Lynching of a 15-Year-Old Black Boy in Broad Daylight.

Read all Articles here: A History of Racial Injustice 

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