A ceremony in Lower Manhattan marking the first day of Kwanzaa was a mix of honoring ancestors and calling for continued protests against police brutality. The celebration runs seven days; each has… ...

Y’all, Kwanzaa is LIT. Seriously. What other uniquely African-American holiday invites you to spend seven days talking about the realest shit? People get so caught up in how it’s a made-up ...

Kwanzaa celebrates African-American heritage. Here’s how it came to be—and what it means today. Since its founding in 1966, ... Each day is steeped in symbolism and ceremony.

Republican photo/DAVE ROBACK Suzi Swain, a staff member at Project AIM in Holyoke, lights a candle during a Kwanzaa ceremony Tuesday at St. Paul's Church while Naomi White-Inniss, director of ...

It's the medium through which we invite the ancestors into the Kwanzaa ceremony. So that's why that recipe is my favorite. MARTIN: Yeah 'cause you're clearly doing this for other people to share ...

St. Marks AME guided the ceremony, lighting seven candles that represent Kwanzaa’s core values: Unity, Self-Determination, Collective Responsibility, Cooperation, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith.

The Wisconsin Black Historical Society/Museum hosted an opening ceremony earlier in the evening to celebrate Kwanzaa. MILWAUKEE - The first day of Kwanzaa was celebrated on Tuesday, Dec. 26.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, which celebrates the principle of unity. The DuSsable Museum hosted a Kwanzaa ceremony featuring African drumming and dancing. Each day of ...

The Wisconsin Black Historical Society held its 37th annual Kwanzaa ceremony. This first day's ceremony highlighted the principle of Umoja or "unity." The event was free and open to the public.

It may be true that Kwanzaa has evolved into a ceremony that has importance to a great number of well-intentioned people, people who have no knowledge of its creator's questionable history.

Symbols of self determination were displayed in many forms to mark the second day of Kwanzaa on Monday at the Black Arts and Cultural Center in downtown Kalamazoo.