Thursday marked the first day of Kwanzaa and Detroiters went to the downtown area for the third annual lighting of the Motor City Kwanzaa Kinara.
People will gather in Downtown Detroit on Thursday night for the start of Kwanzaa and the lighting of the Motor City Kinara.
Hundreds of people made a short pilgrimage Thursday from Detroit's Cadillac Square to Campus Martius to see the first candle of the park's towering Kwanzaa kinara illuminate the dark evening sky.