Join the Sorors of Theta Lambda Omega each year in December for our annual Kwanzaa celebration. Created by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday designed to promote and celebrate seven principles (Nguzo Saba):
Umoja
UNITY. To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia
SELF-DETERMINATION. To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Ujima
COLLECTIVE WORK and RESPONSIBILITY. To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamma
COOPERATIVE EXONOMICS. To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia
PURPOSE. To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba
CREATIVITY. To do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani
FAITH. To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.