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Kwanzaa is a week long celebration held in the United States to honor universal African heritage and culture. People light a kinara (candle holder with seven black, red and green candles) and give each other gifts. It takes place from December 26 to January 1 every year. It was created by Maulana Karenga and was […]
Saturday kicked off the start of Kwanzaa, which is a seven-day non-religious holiday observed in the U.S., meant to honor African Americans’ ancestral roots that are celebrated widely throughout Detroit’s African American community. The celebrations each day include food, decorations, and a kinara, which holds seven candles. Maulana Karenga, a black nationalist, and professor of Pan-African studies at California State University at Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966 and it became wildly popular Kwanzaa in the 1980s and 1990s in tandem with the black power movement – making up the trio...