Each night, one of those candles is lit. The candles are the same colors as the Kwanzaa flag: Black representing the people, red their struggle and green their hope. Large Kwanzaa celebrations ...

Then Mount Pleasant’s pastor, Reverend Nyika Taylor, chose several children to bring the Kwanzaa symbols to the front. The ...

The Kwanzaa Collective in the Valley stopped in Chicopee on Dec. 27 to educate the public and celebrate the second day of Kwanzaa.

Flossmoor’s Hanukkah and Kwanzaa celebrations concluded on New Year’s Day in Flossmoor Park with the lighting of the final ...

Kwanzaa is on display and celebrated every day ... ‘a’ so that it would have a symbolic seven letters.” Seven candles are lit during the daily lighting of the Kinara. On the first day ...

Kwanzaa is celebrated with the daily lighting of candles in a ceremonial candle-holder called a Kinara. Each candle represents one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa, which in Swahili translates ...

With the rhythms of African drums and the singing of traditional African songs, the stage was set Monday night for the continuous Kwanzaa celebration at the Tyler Public Library. The gathering ...

Blount also shared the items that are needed when celebrating Kwanzaa: the kinara (candle holder), mkeka (mat), muhindi (corn to represent the children), mazao (fruit to represent the harvest ...

Sabin CDC was formed in 1991 to address the housing needs of African Americans impacted by gentrification. While the center ...

(Karl Merton Ferron/Staff) The seven illuminated candles for Kwanzaa represent the principals of umoja or unity, kujichagulia or self-determination, ujima or collective work, ujamaa or cooperative ...

Phoenix's historic Eastlake Park community was host to a Kwanzaa gathering on Saturday, offering Black Arizonans an alternative to more mainstream winter holidays. The celebration was held outside ...

(April Gamiz/The Morning Call) Candles and other items are on a table scape Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024 during The Esther M Lee African American Heritage Center’s Kwanzaa celebration at PBS39 in ...