Dear Student and Parent / Legal Guardian,
We are excited that you have made the choice to apply to Turning Point of Lansing! Our missions is to help boys transform to men with our Afrocentric programming based on the 7 principles of Kwanzaa:
NGUZO SABA (The 7 Principles)
Umoja (OO-MO-JAH) (Unity) To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Kujichagulia (KOO-GEE-CHA-GOO-LEE-YAH) (Self-Determination) To define us, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (OO-GEE-MAH) (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.
Ujamaa (OO-JAH-MAH) (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (NEE-YAH) (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (KOO-OOM-BAH) (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani (EE-MAH-NEE) (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.