ujima . kwanzaa playlist

Playlist No. 3: Soundtracking Our Shared Work [Available on Youtube & Spotify]

Art by Sawyer Cloud [Illustration from picture book, Once Upon A Kwanzaa]

This month’s Playlist is rooted in the third principle of Kwanzaa: Ujima - Collective Work and Responsibility. 🖤

Ujima is a call to build and maintain our communities together, to recognize that none of us are free until we all are, and that liberation is a shared, ongoing, and intentional effort.

This playlist was created by the community, for the community filled with tracks submitted by folks like you, offering sounds that inspire togetherness, accountability, healing, joy, and action. This is music for movement work. Music for family reunions. Music for late-night visioning sessions and morning meditations. Music that reminds us: we rise together.

🎧 Listen Now:

YouTube Link

Spotify Link

This project is more than a monthly playlist. It’s part of a larger mission to make Kwanzaa a living practice not just a week on the calendar. These principles are too powerful, too relevant, and too sacred to be boxed into December.

We’re also gearing up for the release of our new picture book, Once Upon a Kwanzaa, coming this September! Written by me (Nyasha Williams) and the brilliant Sidney Rose McCall, this book is a celebration of how Kwanzaa can live in our everyday lives - across generations, across communities, across time.

🎶 Each Playlist is a ritual of remembrance and renewal, an invitation to honor these principles through sound and shared energy.

In community and creativity,

Nyasha & Sidney

[Preorder Once Upon a Kwanzaa]

In case you missed it the first couple:
[Umoja Playlist]

[Kujichagulia Playlist]