Who We Are
We are each others Harvest; We are each other's business; We are each other's magnitude and bond;
Gwendolyn Brooks
Our Mentorship Partners
Promoting Mindfullness
47 years. 2000 vendors. 100,000 treat bags. 400 speeches. 817 Entertainers. 20,000 food baskets. The Dallas Harambee Festival is the oldest and largest African American cultural event in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex and for many years has had over 15,000 in attendance. The 47th Harambee festival is a community-based mentorship program culminating with a cultural event hosted on October, 30 each year ...
Our Technologies Partners
Promoting Media Literacy & Training
7 technologies that impact our culture and the most lucrative careers for our kids. Drones. Touch screens. Augmented reality. Virtual reality. 3-D printing. Wearables. Digital Scrapbooks culminating at the Harambee Interactive and Harambee Festival each year ...
Organizing Social Partners
Promoting Services for the Community
CCSOC, inc., the non-profit parent company of Harambee Dallas, has established social connections with over 200 organizations and programs ranging from social programs, social networks, social campaigns, political offices, cultural centers, schools, and museums over the last 47 years. Connecting to these ...
Our Event Partners
Promoting Festival, Venue, & Online Performances
For over 47 years, Harambee Dallas has promoted various events before and during its infamous Harambee Festival. However, as a result of the ongoing pandemic and the resulting unavoidable and growing dependencies on technology, our pre-events and the Harambee Festival have undergone a transformation from simply on-the-ground to include on-air and online. Harambee Dallas, the managing organization partnering with CCSOC, ...
Our Community Participants
Promoting Services for the Community
CCSOC, inc., the non-profit parent company of Harambee Dallas, has established social connections with over 200 organizations and programs ranging from social programs, social networks, social campaigns, political offices, cultural centers, schools, and museums over the last 47 years. Connecting to these ...
Who Supports Us
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2021 Featured Community
Participants
The 48th Harambee Festival
October 30, 2022 @ MLK Center, Dallas
2021 Featured Community Participants
Our Safety Campaign
I used to feel unsafe right in the middle of accomplishment - I felt the ground fall right from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, when everyone is celebrating, I'm on to the next thing. I do not want to get lost ...
Rihanna
Our Synopsis: Even during our greatest accomplishments, many young people of color strive ever more fervently toward a place of safety. Harambee Dallas seeks to create those places of safety for our young people and their families.
Safeguards
The Harambee Festival, the longest running festival of its kind – a unity festival, was born out of the need to create a safe space for youth. It is supported primarily by CCSOC, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit. In the early 1970’s the Harambee Festival gathered ...
Opportunities
The Harambee Festival, offers over 10,000 volunteer opportunities for youth and adults. Additionally in partnership with Citizens Committee to Save Our Children Inc., (CCSOC) a 501c3 non-profit, to provide formula for over 20,000 of hungry babies, over 5,000 Easter baskets, ...
Training
The Harambee Festival is a huge supporter of providing training opportunities and educational exposure to our youth. A solution is to open the minds of our impressionable youth and illustrate to them the positive alternative avenues to express themselves ...
Watoto Village
We sponsor the children’s area with 2-D and 3-D imagery and videos of fun houses, arts and crafts, games, free treat bags for all children under the age of 18. This is a day filled with optionally physical and/or interactive educational projects as well as entertaining events ...
Marketplace
A goal of Harambee Festival is to create a virtual 365/24/7 marketplace to expand the relationship between specialty vendors and attendees. Due to COVID-19 safety requirements, the 15,000 in-person festival goers are asked to do 2 things ...
Founders
inspiration
Arthello Beck, Marilyn Clark, Lloyd Gite, Leo Hassan, Charles Hillman, Al Lipscomb, Jo Long, Billy Murkledove, Donald Payton, Chief Ifayomi "Karioki" Arthur Riggins, Al Simmons, Juanita Simmons, and Bill Stoner are ...
 Harambee Kids Climbing the Pyramid |  Harambee Kids recognize their Culture |  Kids on Court during Festival |
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 Mother in Watoto Village |  Harambee Kids playing on Court |  Harambee Kids Volunteering |
 Harambee Bull Riding |  Harambee Kids Acting on Stage |  Harambee Kids Jumping to be Fit |
