Kwanzaa in a sentence

Kwanzaa honors family, community and culture in the African American tradition, according to officialkwanzaawebsit.org. The name “Kwanzaa” comes from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza,” which means first fruits.

In honor of Kwanzaa, master drummer / composer Marcus L. Miller has created a new musical suite exploring each of the seven principals of Kwanzaa.

By my mid-20s, I was more likely to attend Passover seders than Kwanzaa celebrations.

Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa and Three Kings Day are all celebrated at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure during the holiday season, according to the parks’ websites.

During the first Kwanzaa in 1966, advocates of Us argued the pros and cons of gift-giving around the questions of whether it would duplicate the negatives of Christmas gift-giving.

Inspired by the Kwanzaa model, in which each day is dedicated to a specific principle, they agreed that the celebration should be a week with key anchor dates.

It’s a full day of uplifting programs based on the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

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Naimah Muhammad, left, dancer with Community Collective of Baltimore, leads Eden Gray, 8, and others in dance to start Kwanzaa celebrations at Eubie Blake Center.

This resource, as tweeted below, includes a solid 113 anti-Christmas, anti-white, pro-Muslim, pro-Kwanzaa, and pro-Mexican Christmas tradition links.

That means we’ll have Jamie, Claire and the rest of the Fraser clan around for (maybe) Thanksgiving and (definitely) Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and the new year.

The museum and its Kwanzaa celebration is meant for children ages 4-9.

Westbury Arts Executive Director Tiffany Blair, Board Director Stanley Turetsky, Event organizer Marcia McNair, Westbury Arts President Julie Lyon and Westbury Village Trustee Beaumont Jefferson at the Kwanzaa celebration.

And young historians can delve into African-American tradition during Let’s Celebrate Kwanzaa, on Dec. 16, which will explore the holiday’s seven principles.

Kwanzaa is an African American holiday.

Later, event-goers were asked to stand and sing the Afrikan Heritage House song together, a call-and-response tune about the principles and meanings of Kwanzaa.

But many students from Christian backgrounds on campus can’t explain the customs and history behind Diwali and Kwanzaa – which are around the same time of year.

Clothes we rarely wear, furniture we don’t need, the Obama family Kwanzaa figurines I bought from the barbershop mixtape guy nine years ago—we gave (and threw) away as much stuff as we could.

Conceived and created in the midst of the Black Freedom Movement, Kwanzaa is deeply involved and invested in the concept and practice of freedom as an indispensable way to achieve and secure the shared and inclusive good it envisions and urges.

Greensboro offers many festivals and activities, such as the annual seven-day Greensboro Kwanzaa Collective and the Greensboro Holiday Parade.