In the fall semester of 2019,  students in the lecture course, “Black Fire” completed several commemorative issues of Pride, a student run newspaper that launched at UVA in the fall of 1975. Over the year, we will post several of those issues on the website.

Pride Magazine, Fall 2019 Special Issue

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 when we inherited it.” M. Karenga

2019 was a very exciting and productive year for Black Fire! We released two films (Black Bus Stop and Hampton), began work on another short, offered the large lecture course, Black Fire, in both the spring and fall semesters, and picked up a few award nominations and prizes for Black Bus Stop.  In the fall semester, students in the Black Fire course also put out special issues of Pride magazine, a monthly created by the Black Student Alliance in 1975. The magazine no longer  exists so as a class project we decided to put together a few issues, which I hope to post soon.

In the spirit of the Kwanzaa principle, Kuumba, here are a few pictures from our creative work this year. Happy Holidays!