November 20th is Zumbi dos Palmares Day!!! Zumbi is celebrated on this day because it is the date of his death and since the 1960's it has been celebrated in Brasil as Black Awareness Day (or Black Conscious Day, portuegese: Dia Nacional da Consciência Negra)."Zumbi dos Palmares was born free in the Palmares region of Brazil in the year 1655, the last of the military leaders of the Quilombo (Kimbundu word: "kilombo," of the North Mbundu Bantu language in Angola, meaning "warrior village or settlement") of Palmares. The Quilombo dos Palmares were a free society (free born, maroons, or refugee slave), an old South American republic, which included the present day Brazilian coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. Today, Zumbi is known as one of the great historic leaders of Brazil." Thank you Mr. Zumbi for all of your contributions and inspiration! Please click the link below and learn more about Zumbi dos Palmares. :-)
http://www.blackhistoryheroes.com/2010/05/zumbi-dos-palmares.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naPFF3UGixo
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