Kwanzaa is a week-long holiday dedicated to celebrating African culture and traditions, observed annually from December 26 to January 1. Proposed by African-American leader Maulana Karenga ...

Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebrate in African American culture, and the holiday is almost here. Though the holiday is relatively young, over 9 million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the United States.

Kwanzaa is an African American, and pan-African seven-day cultural festival celebrated every December 26 to January 1. Like most festivals, Kwanzaa incorporates music as an essential element of ...

Since its founding in 1966, Kwanzaa has become a nationally recognised celebration of African culture and community in the United States. The secular holiday is also celebrated in countries with ...

But that does not diminish the instrument’s power. Hundreds – if not thousands – of people from all walks of life will heed the call of the djembe drum when it takes center stage at public Kwanzaa ...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Brooklyn Thursday for the annual Kwanzaa Crawl, celebrating Black culture with an emphasis on the seven principles of the holiday. Thousands of people ...

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Dec 27, 2023 Dec 27, 2023 Updated Feb 1, 2025 Bonnie Petty has celebrated Kwanzaa for more than 40 years. “It is not about Christmas at all, but about family and culture,” African American ...

The Center for Black Culture at the University of Delaware will hold a pre-Kwanzaa celebration at 6 p.m. Thursday at Clayton Hall ballroom on the university campus in Newark. Kwanzaa is an African ...

Kwanzaa is an African-American and pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture. It was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana Studies. Kwanzaa, a ...

It’s Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. Today is also the beginning of Kwanzaa. The seven-day celebration emphasizes a different key principle of African American culture each day. We’ve put together a ...