The first Kwanzaa was celebrated on Dec. 26, 1966, in Los Angeles under the direction of Maulana Karenga, the chairman of the Department of Africana Studies at California State University in Long ...

This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context of our time. In the ...

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

While there are still missions to be accomplished and hurdles to leap in the greater Portsmouth area, there is massive ...

The Lakewood Black Caucus Kwanzaa celebration was held on Saturday, December 28th, which was the third day of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a secular celebration of heritage based on seven principles founded by ...

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

Attendees donned ankara-print clothing, daishikis and other traditional West African-inspired attire as they dined on Black ...

Kwanzaa was first created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in the 1960s, shortly after the Civil Rights Movement. The event from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 was meant to bring solidarity to communities in a time of ...

Kwanzaa often culminates in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of ...

The word ‘Kwanzaa’ is Swahili for ‘first fruits,’ and it was first observed in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga who was inspired by harvest festival customs from regions of West, East ...