2022 Kwanzaa Forever First Class Postage Stamps

The U.S., Postal Service continues its tradition of celebrating Kwanzaa. The annual Pan-African holiday, which takes place overseven days from December 26 to January 1, brings family, community, and culture together for many African Americans.
The stamp design depicts two children, a gir 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 spirtual garments. A light-blue circle behind the children’sheads represents wholeness and unifies the figures, and a mosaic motif frames the backaround.
Kwanzaa is a festive time for rejoicing in the prospect of health, prosperity, and good luck in the coming year. it 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 vear, milions of Afican Americans gather with fiends and family throughout the week of Kwanzaa to honor the Pan-Africanholiday’s seven founding principles — Unity (Umojal), Self-Determination (Kuiichagulia), Collective Work and Responsibility (Uima).Cooperative Economics (Ujamaa), Purpose (Nia), Creativity (Kuumba), and Faith (lmani. With origins in ancient and modern first.narvest festivities occurring across the African continent, Kwanzaa incorporates and reimacines many communal traditions as acontemporary celebration and reaffirmation of African American culture.
Art director Antonio Alcalá desianed the stamp with original artwork by Erin Robinson.The Kwanzaa stamp is being issued as a Forevere stamp. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the curent First-ClassMail® one-ounce price.
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