Kwanzaa Stamps

With this new stamp design, the U.S. Postal Service continues its tradition of celebrating Kwanzaa. The annual Pan-Africanholiday, which takes place over seven days from December 26 to January 1, brings family, community, and culture together formany African Americans.
The stamp design depicts two children, a girl and a boy, standing together with a kinara (candleholder and the seven lit candles(mishumaa saba) in front of them. They are dressed in robes akin to spiritual garments. A light-blue circle behind the children'sheads represents wholeness and unifies the figures, and a mosaic motif frames the backqround.
Kwanzaa is a festive time for rejoicing in the prospect of health, prosperity, and good luck in the coming year. t is also a time forcontemplation and recollection of past hardships. faced by both individuals and communities, and the ways in which history caninform and impact future happiness.
Every year, milions of African Americans gather with friends and family throughout the week of kwanzaa to honor the Pan-Africarholiday's seven founding principles-Unity (Umoia), Self-Determination (Kuichaqulial), Collective Work and Responsibility (UimaCooperative Economics (Ujamaal), Purpose (Nia), Creativity (Kuumba), and Faith (lmani). With origins in ancient and modern firstharvest festivities occurring across the African continent, Kwanzaa incorporates and reimagines many communa traditions as acontemporary celebration and reaffirmation of African American culture.
Art director Antonio Alcala desianed the stamp with original artwork by Erin Bobinson.The Kwanzaa stamp is being issued as a Forever@ stamp. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the current First-ClassMail图 one-ounce price.
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