PSFLF has found some of its mission in the Peter Spencer Principles: community, hope, salvation, liberation, and self-determination. Spencer was a social justice leader two centuries ago in the early 19 th Century. He founded and incorporated the African Union Church, and the Big Quarterly Festival, which united free and enslaved African Americans in an annual solidarity event. Both were firsts in the nation, and qualitatively radical events for African Americans in the early 1800s. PSFLF also utilizes the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa to live out its mission and vision: Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith. Our programs started with a Kwanzaa Holiday Camp, December 27-31, 1999, followed by a Kwanzaa Summer Camp, June-August, 2000. The Peter Spencer Heritage Hallway was launched that year as well. The Ujima (collective work and responsibility) After School Program was started in 2001 to complement the summer Spencer Kwanzaa Camp. PSFLF later added the Harambee (let’s pull together) and the Imani (faith) Rites of Passage programs for boys and girls, respectively. After 12 years of the Kwanzaa Camp, we partnered with the Children’s Defense Fund in 2013 to launch what has become our flagship program, The Spencer Freedom School, which demonstrates our mission and vision. All our programs seek to engage, not only each participant/scholar served, but their family and community as well with intergenerational goals and objectives.